[RFC] GPIO-Watchdog in devicetree

[David Gibson]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 09:43:57PM +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I understood that the device-tree is for describing hardware and should
> not contain driver specific information. I have problems drawing this
> line right now. I made a driver for watchdogs which are pinged by
> toggling a gpio. Currently the device-tree entry looks like this:
> 
> 	watchdog at gpio {
> 		compatible = "gpio-watchdog";
> 		gpios =	<&gpio_simple 19 0>;
> 	};

This certainly isn't right.  The unit address should be based on the
'reg' property.  If there's no 'reg' property, there should be no unit
address.

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