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From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date:   Wed, 20 Nov 2019 11:15:01 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] watchdog: Remove iop_wdt
To:     Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc:     Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
        Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>,
        Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>,
        "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        LINUXWATCHDOG <linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org>,
        Lennert Buytenhek <kernel@wantstofly.org>
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On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 11:03 AM Russell King - ARM Linux admin
<linux@armlinux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 06:29:09AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On 11/19/19 1:40 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 3:08 AM Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
> > > > On 11/18/19 2:04 PM, Laura Abbott wrote:
> >
> > Good point, especially since apparently no one cared for five years.
>
> Doesn't mean that there aren't interested parties.  I still have
> IOP32x hardware running here in the form of a N2100 (my firewall)
> and it seems that I never noticed this option disappearing until
> now...

It's not that it was ever there for IOP32x: the driver was introduced in 2007
and was available for IOP32x but failed to compile for it until 2014 when
I sent the patch to disable the driver in all configurations that
failed to build.

       Arnd