Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 03 Feb 2014 14:09:52 -0700 | From | Stephen Warren <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v1] ARM: tegra: add nvidia,wdt-timer-id optional property |
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On 02/03/2014 11:59 AM, Andrew Chew wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 09:46:51PM +0000, Andrew Chew wrote: >>> This optional property can be used to specify which timers are to be >>> used for hardware watchdog timeouts (via a tegra wdt driver). >> >> Is there any reason that a particular timer should be used? > > I worry about colliding with other timer allocations, and wanted to be > flexible in this regard.
Are the other timer allocations represented in DT, or simply made by or hard-coded in the driver? If the former, this property seems like a good equivalent of any existing allocations. If the latter, can't the driver just allocate or hard-code the allocation in the same way as any existing allocations?
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