Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 14:09:16 -0700
From: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
To: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
Cc: Akshay Bhat <akshay.bhat@timesys.com>, Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>, Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] watchdog: imx2_wdt: add external reset support
 via 'ext-reset-output' dt prop
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On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 09:22:33AM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 04:19:15PM -0400, Akshay Bhat wrote:
> > Hi Shawn,
> > 
> > On 02/28/2016 08:56 AM, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> > >Rob,
> > >
> > >On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 6:28 PM, Akshay Bhat <akshay.bhat@timesys.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >>>I have no objections against the idea and the code itself.
> > >>>But as Guenter pointed out: it would be handy to get feedback from the
> > >>>devicetree maintainers on the above discussion.
> > >>>
> > >>>Kind regards,
> > >>>Wim.
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >>Any suggestions on whether a vendor specific prefix is necessary?
> > >
> > >Any comments?
> > >
> > 
> > Is this something you can help with, since you are the iMX
> > architecture/devicetree maintainer? Appreciate any feedback.
> 
> FWIW,
> 
> Acked-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
> 
> Guenter,
> 
> I think it's reasonable to pick up the patch, if we have it copied to DT
> maintainers and on the list for a long period of time, and do not see
> any objection from anyone.
> 
The question was if the property name should be ext-reset-output or
fsl,ext-reset-output. In my opinion, it should be fsl,ext-reset-output
because it is not a generic property. Tim disagrees.

So we have two options: Change the property name to fsl,ext-reset-output,
which I would accept, or wait for a devicetree maintainer to make a decision.

Guenter