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From: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
To: matthieu castet <castet.matthieu@free.fr>
Cc: wim@iguana.be, Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mips@linux-mips.org,
	Aleksandar Radovanovic <biblbroks@sezampro.rs>
Subject: Re: add bcm47xx watchdog driver
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 15:58:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200906051558.02303.florian@openwrt.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A282D98.6020004@free.fr>

Salut Matthieu,

Le Thursday 04 June 2009 22:24:56 matthieu castet, vous avez écrit :
> This add watchdog driver for broadcom 47xx device.
> It uses the ssb subsytem to access embeded watchdog device.
>
> Because the watchdog timeout is very short (about 2s), a soft timer is used
> to increase the watchdog period.
>
> Note : A patch for exporting the ssb_watchdog_timer_set will
> be submitted on next linux-mips merge. Without this patch it can't
> be build as a module.

Your driver looks good, could you turn this into a platform device/driver 
instead ? You declare bcm47xx_wdt_platform_device which is unused and you 
also declare a MODULE_ALIAS which suggets it is one.

You are also missing your name in both the header the the MODULE_AUTHOR macro.
-- 
Best regards, Florian Fainelli
Email : florian@openwrt.org
http://openwrt.org
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-05 13:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-04 20:24 add bcm47xx watchdog driver matthieu castet
2009-06-05 13:58 ` Florian Fainelli [this message]
2009-06-05 14:58   ` castet.matthieu
2009-06-06 10:58     ` Florian Fainelli
2009-06-05 16:57   ` add bcm47xx watchdog driver v2 matthieu castet
2009-06-05 19:48 ` add bcm47xx watchdog driver Andrew Morton
2009-06-05 20:30   ` matthieu castet
2009-06-08 14:15     ` Florian Fainelli
2009-06-10 17:17       ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2009-06-10 18:47         ` matthieu castet
2009-06-10 19:06           ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2009-06-05 19:50 ` Andrew Morton
2009-06-05 20:03   ` matthieu castet

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