Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] watchdog: Add new arm_smc_wdt watchdog driver

From: Julius Werner
Date: Tue Apr 28 2020 - 16:07:34 EST


> I think I have misunderstood the device tree json-schema spec.
> My intention was for the device tree to fill in a default value in the dtb for
> arm,smc-id if it was omitted in the dts. But now I see that does not seem to
> happen, I cannot really find any documentation of `default`, so I will just put
> a documentation string in instead and force the default in the driver.

The bindings in Documentation/device-tree are just for informational
purposes, they do not have any direct effect on anything. If you want
there to be a default, you'll have to write the kernel code to fill it
in.