Hi Chris,
On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 4:12 PM Chris Brandt <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 29, 2018, Chris Brandt wrote:
> > Add support for the R7S9210 (RZ/A2) Clock Pulse Generator and Module
> > Standby.
>
> I ran into an issue with this driver.
>
> The issue is that the registers needed for this driver are scattered
> throughout the address space.
>
> I can't just reserve one big block of addresses that cover everything
> because then I can't reserve any of the addresses that sit in the middle.
Yeah, this address range is kind of a "syscon" block.
> For example, my watchdog timer driver doesn't work with this driver
> because it cannot allocate its register region.
>
> So, I think I need to rework this driver to add the ability to add
> multiple address regions.
Your main driver for this block (clock?) can register the watchdog.
Either directly with the watchdog subsystem, or by registering an
"rza_wdt" platform device.
One more vote for a separate rza2-cpg-stb-wdt driver?...
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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