Re: [2.6.22 patch] iop: combined watchdog timer driver for iop3xx and iop13xx

["Dan Williams" <dan.j.williams@gmail.com>]

On 5/6/07, Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> wrote:
> Hi Dan,
>
> > Here is a new watchdog driver for your review.  It supports two flavors
> > of the iop watchdog timer.  The iop13xx watchdog can be stopped while
> > the iop3xx version cannot.
>
> I started reviewing this patch yesterday. First thing I noticed was that
> you seem to be moving some code from include/asm-arm/arch-iop13xx/system.h
> to include/asm-arm/arch-iop13xx/iop13xx.h .
> This should not be part of this patch since it is touching architecture
> dependant code for which I do not have enough knowledge about this specific
> architecture to tell if this is indeed the correct way to do this.
> The maintainers of this architecture should imho comment on this.
> Could you split this patch into 2 patches: one that deals with the moving of
> the architecture dependant code (and explaining why) and one with the new
> watchdog drivers? I will continue my review today.
>

I am one of the maintainers of this architecture, (Lennert Buytenhek
is the other).  I will go ahead and split this up so you can sign-off
on the watchdog specific bits.  The intent is to move all hardware
definitions under #include <asm/hardware.h>.  You are right this
should have been a separate patch.

> Thanks,
> Wim.
>

Thanks for your help,
Dan