Re: add bcm47xx watchdog driver

[castet.matthieu@free.fr]

Hi Florian,

Quoting Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>:

>
> 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.
What's the advantage of using platform device/driver ?
Not all watchdog driver use it (for example softdog).
This seems useless in this case because the driver don't have any resource,
don't care about suspend/resume and add complexity in the code (2 registers in
module probe, ...).


Matthieu