Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] watchdog: Add Cadence WDT driver

[Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>]

On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 10:43:05AM +0100, Michal Simek wrote:
> Hi Mark,
> 
> >> +static struct of_device_id cdns_wdt_of_match[] = {
> >> +       { .compatible = "xlnx,zynq-wdt-r1p2", },
> >> +       { .compatible = "cdns,wdt-r1p2", },
> > 
> > If these can currently be handled identically, why not just have
> > "cdns,wdt-r1p2" in the driver and in your dts have:
> > 
> > compatible = "xlnx,zynq-wdt-r1p2", "cdns,wdt-r1p2";
> > 
> > If we need to distinguish the two for some reason later we can always
> > add the "xlnx,zynq-wdt-r1p2" string to the driver.
> 
> I would prefer to have 2 compatible strings just because
> of that we don't know what is different compare to origin cadence
> version. We have done the same for spi-cadence.c that's why
> it shouldn't be any problem to keep it as is.
> Having zynq compatible property here and using it give us option
> that if another SoC vendor come with new configuration or clean
> cadence one we can simple handle it without changing compatible
> property for us.

Sure, we can have two documented strings. But as I mention for the
moment the driver only needs to support the one string so long as a
given dts has both. Then we can later distinguish the zynq variant (or
any other) as necessary.

Cheers,
Mark.