[PATCH v3 0/6] Improved sysreset/watchdog uclass integration

Andre Przywara andre.przywara at arm.com
Fri Nov 5 00:11:40 CET 2021


On Thu, 4 Nov 2021 11:37:57 +0100
Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de> wrote:

Hi Stefan,

> On 04.11.21 04:55, Samuel Holland wrote:
> > This series hooks up the watchdog uclass to automatically register
> > watchdog devices for use with sysreset, doing a bit of minor cleanup
> > along the way.
> > 
> > The goal is for this to replace the sunxi board-level non-DM reset_cpu()
> > function. I was surprised to find that the wdt_reboot driver requires
> > its own undocumented device tree node, which references the watchdog
> > device by phandle. This is problematic for us, because sunxi-u-boot.dtsi
> > file covers 20 different SoCs with varying watchdog node phandle names.
> > So it would have required adding a -u-boot.dtsi file for each board.
> > 
> > Hooking things up automatically makes sense to me; this is what Linux
> > does. However, I put the code behind a new option to avoid surprises for
> > other platforms.
> > 
> > Changes in v3:
> >   - Move condition to wdt-uclass.c to fix build errors.
> >   - Include watchdog name in error message.
> > 
> > Changes in v2:
> >   - Extend the "if SYSRESET" block to the end of the file.
> >   - Also make gpio_reboot_probe function static.
> >   - Rebase on top of 492ee6b8d0e7 (now handle all watchdogs).
> >   - Added patches 5-6 as an example of how the new option will be used.
> > 
> > Samuel Holland (6):
> >    sysreset: Add uclass Kconfig dependency to drivers
> >    sysreset: Mark driver probe functions as static
> >    sysreset: watchdog: Move watchdog reference to plat data
> >    watchdog: Automatically register device with sysreset
> >    sunxi: Avoid duplicate reset_cpu with SYSRESET enabled
> >    sunxi: Use sysreset framework for poweroff/reset
> > 
> >   arch/arm/Kconfig                     |  3 +++
> >   arch/arm/mach-sunxi/board.c          |  2 ++
> >   drivers/sysreset/Kconfig             | 11 ++++++--
> >   drivers/sysreset/sysreset_gpio.c     |  2 +-
> >   drivers/sysreset/sysreset_resetctl.c |  2 +-
> >   drivers/sysreset/sysreset_syscon.c   |  2 +-
> >   drivers/sysreset/sysreset_watchdog.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
> >   drivers/watchdog/wdt-uclass.c        |  8 ++++++
> >   include/sysreset.h                   | 10 +++++++
> >   9 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> >   
> 
> Applied to u-boot-marvell

Mmmh, why u-boot-marvell, and why did this end up already in master?
Isn't that material for the next merge window? After all this changes
quite a bit, for a lot of boards, and I did not have a closer look at
the sunxi parts yet.

Cheers,
Andre


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