Re: [PATCH RESEND V2 1/4] dt-bindings: fsl: scu: add watchdog binding

[Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 03:34:12PM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> > >
> > > I think Rob suggested that the SCU parent driver should instantiate the
> > > watchdog without explicit watchdog node. That would be possible, but it
> > > currently uses
> > > devm_of_platform_populate() to do the instantiation, and changing that
> > > would be a mess. Besides, it does sem to me that your suggested node would
> > > describe the hardware, so I am not sure I understand the reasoning.
> 
> It would just be a call to create a platform device instead. How is that a mess?
> 
> It's describing firmware. We have DT for describing h/w we've failed
> to make discoverable. We should not repeat that and just describe
> firmware in DT. Make the firmware discoverable! Though there are cases
> like firmware provided clocks where we still need something in DT, but
> this is not one of them.
> 

It requires extra code where an added DT node would accomplish the same.
It requires a mix of DT nodes for existing devices plus extra code for
newly added devices. To me that looks like a revert to old platform code,
which was replaced with DT descriptions over the last several years.

But then if that is where things are going, who am I to argue.

Guenter