[PATCH 3/3] mpc52xx/wdt: WDT uses GPT api

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Thu Nov 12 07:18:36 EST 2009


On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 1:32 AM, Albrecht Dreß <albrecht.dress at arcor.de> wrote:
> Hi Grant:
>
> O.k., thanks for your comments.  If Wim doesn't have any objections to it, I will provide a merged patch.  One consequence I forgot to mention is that we loose the ability to build the wdt support as module, but I don't think it's a real problem.

I'm not too worried about this.  It is also potentially possible to
rework the entire GPT driver as a module.  But there are non-trivial
architecture fiddly bits needed to make it safe to load IRQ
controllers in a module.

> I think we still should keep the kernel config option enable/disable the wdt support, which would mask out the wdt code if disabled.  Is that ok for you?

Yup.

g.

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