Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 14:29:56 -0600
From: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
To: Damien Riegel <damien.riegel@savoirfairelinux.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
        linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
        Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>, Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
        Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk>,
        Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org>,
        Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>, Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>,
        Sascha Hauer <kernel@pengutronix.de>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
        Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>, Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>, kernel@savoirfairelinux.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 3/6] watchdog: ts4800: add driver for TS-4800 watchdog
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On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 02:25:04PM -0500, Damien Riegel wrote:
> This watchdog is instantiated in a FPGA that is memory mapped. It is
> made of only one register, called the feed register. Writing to this
> register will re-arm the watchdog for a given time (and enable it if it
> was disable). It can be disabled by writing a special value into it.
> 
> It is part of a syscon block, and the watchdog register offset in this
> block varies from board to board. This offset is passed in the syscon
> property after the phandle to the syscon node.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Damien Riegel <damien.riegel@savoirfairelinux.com>
> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
> ---
>  .../devicetree/bindings/watchdog/ts4800-wdt.txt    |  25 +++
>  drivers/watchdog/Kconfig                           |  10 +
>  drivers/watchdog/Makefile                          |   1 +
>  drivers/watchdog/ts4800_wdt.c                      | 215 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 251 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/ts4800-wdt.txt
>  create mode 100644 drivers/watchdog/ts4800_wdt.c
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/ts4800-wdt.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/ts4800-wdt.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..388c60f
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/ts4800-wdt.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
> +Technologic Systems Watchdog
> +
> +Required properties:
> +- compatible: must be "technologic,ts4800-wdt"
> +- syscon: phandle / integer array that points to the syscon node which
> +          describes the FPGA's syscon registers.
> +          - phandle to FPGA's syscon
> +          - offset to the watchdog register
> +
> +Optional property:
> +- timeout-sec: contains the watchdog timeout in seconds.
> +
> +Example:
> +
> +syscon: syscon@b0010000 {
> +	compatible = "syscon", "simple-mfd";
> +	reg = <0xb0010000 0x3d>;
> +	bus-width = <16>;
> +
> +	wdt@e {
> +		compatible = "technologic,ts4800-wdt";
> +		syscon = <&syscon 0xe>;

If this is single register only for the watchdog, why do you need 
syscon? You can just use reg.

Rob
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