Re: [PATCH V3] Watchdog: Fix parent of watchdog_devices

From: Charles Keepax
Date: Wed Sep 02 2015 - 06:03:03 EST


On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 08:58:24AM +0530, Pratyush Anand wrote:
> /sys/class/watchdog/watchdogn/device/modalias can help to identify the
> driver/module for a given watchdog node. However, many wdt devices does not set
> its parent and so, we do not see an entry for device in sysfs for such devices.
>
> This patch fixes parent of watchdog_device so that
> /sys/class/watchdog/watchdogn/device is populated.
>
> Exceptions: booke, diag288, mpc8xxx, octeon, softdog and w83627hf -- They do not
> have any parent. Not sure, how we can we identify driver for these devices.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pratyush Anand <panand@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

For the Wolfson parts:

Acked-by: Charles Keepax <ckeepax@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
Charles
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