omap watchdog

Daniel. danielhilst at gmail.com
Thu Oct 27 15:56:29 EDT 2016


Seems a bug to me, you should post it to linux-omap :)

Regards,

2016-10-27 6:14 GMT-02:00 Cor Peters <cpeters at victronenergy.com>:
> Hello everybody
>
> I was looking into an issue with the omap-wdt.c. The  watchdog driver not is
> reporting a different boot status when a reset is being triggered by the
> watchdog.
>
> >From what I gathered, the issue is that in the omap_wdt_probe function,
> pdev->dev->platform_data requires to be a reference to the PRM module,
> however it has not been set, and I was wondering how this should work in
> an environment that uses the device tree method. (Link to usage:
> http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/watchdog/omap_wdt.c#L268 ).
>
> My questions are as follows:
> 1) Is my assertion correct that the current method does not work when
>    the driver is being initialised from an device tree instead of a old style
>    board file.
> 2) If that is the case, what would be the best method of fixing this
>    situation.
>
> Thank you very much in advance.
>
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