[PATCH V3 01/14] watchdog/mpcore_wdt: Mark it as BROKEN

[marc.zyngier@arm.com (Marc Zyngier)]

On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:40:25 +0530, Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
wrote:
> Wow!! So many replies, let me reply to everyone in this chain.
> 
> On 18 June 2013 22:05, Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
>> wrote:
>>> On 18/06/13 16:42, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 08:50:25PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> 
>>>>> Lets mark it broken until somebody with this hardware gets up and
>>>>> fixes it.
>>>>>
>>>> I must be missing something. What is the point of the remaining
>>>> patches in this
>>>> case ?
> 
> In case somebody wakes up and tries to fix this driver, he doesn't have
to
> write stuff which I already wrote. That's it. This stuff was pending in
my
> tree
> for more than a year now and I wanted to get rid of it (without deleting
> it) :)
> 
>>> Indeed. This looks like pointless churn to me, unless someone actually
>>> picks up the driver and fixes it for good.
>>>
>>> If nobody cares enough about it, then maybe it should be moved into
>>> staging and eventually retired...
>>
>>
>> That was a year ago, and nobody has done anything to the driver. Just
>> remove it -- if someone wants to do the work later on it's easy to
>> revert the commit and start over.
>>
>> Keeping code in the kernel but marking it BROKEN is only useful if we
>> think someone will fix it soon. It seems very unlikely in this case.
> 
> I believed that this is the driver which will be used by all cortex
> family, i.e.
> all ARM SMP platforms, isn't it? I am sure atleast the A9 family had
this.

ARM11, A5 and A9 in their MP configurations only.

> If no, then which ones are the real users of this driver/hardware?
> If yes, Why isn't anybody using this?

Because, as Russell mentioned, the piece of IP doesn't fit our watchdog
model at all (per-CPU watchdog???), and most SoCs/boards have a separate
watchdog anyway.

> I will send a patch that will delete this driver and will provide link
to
> my
> patches, in case somebody wants it back in future.

Thanks.

        M.
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