On 20/01/2015 at 09:47:39 +0000, Lee Jones wrote : > > > This driver looks pretty pointless. Why can't you request the sysconf > > > registers from within the drivers themselves? > > > > > > > How would you probe the watchdog driver then? Would you had the > > "atmel,at91rm9200-st" compatible there? > > > > At some point in time, we should add the reset driver, would you also > > match it on "atmel,at91rm9200-st"? > > > > I'm fine with that as this allows to avoid the mfd driver. > > I'm sorry, I don't follow. Why can't each driver have their own > compatible strings? >
The same IP provides a clocksource, a watchdog and is also the reset controller. I think that the DT guidelines requires that the DT describes the hardware and so use one compatible for that IP; -- Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
