[PATCH 2.6.19] enable watchdog device on mpc834x platforms

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Dec 15 02:41:54 EST 2006


On Dec 14, 2006, at 4:41 AM, Pieter-Jan Busschaert wrote:

> This patch adds the watchdog device for all mpc834x platforms. It
> should be used with the mpc83xx_wdt driver which is already present in
> the kernel.
>
> Patch is made against a clean 2.6.19 kernel.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pieter-Jan Busschaert
> <pieterjan.busschaert+ppcembedded at gmail.com>

Two things about this patch:
1. We've actively avoid taking non-bug fix patches to arch/ppc as we  
try to move people over to arch/powerpc.
2. You can't hard code freq in the platform data like that.  It's  
expected to be the bus frequency the device is running at.

- kumar



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