Re: [PATCH 1/3] watchdog: make Siemens Simatic watchdog driver default on platform

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Tue Jul 18 2023 - 11:08:08 EST


On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 12:52:11PM +0200, Henning Schild wrote:
> If a user did choose to enable Siemens Simatic platform support they
> likely want that driver to be enabled without having to flip more config
> switches. So we make the watchdog driver config switch default to the
> platform driver switches value.
>
> Signed-off-by: Henning Schild <henning.schild@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/watchdog/Kconfig | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig b/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig
> index ee97d89dfc11..ccdbd1109a32 100644
> --- a/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig
> @@ -1681,6 +1681,7 @@ config NIC7018_WDT
> config SIEMENS_SIMATIC_IPC_WDT
> tristate "Siemens Simatic IPC Watchdog"
> depends on SIEMENS_SIMATIC_IPC
> + default SIEMENS_SIMATIC_IPC

Why not just "default y" ? That does the same (it will be set to m if
SIEMENS_SIMATIC_IPC=m) without the complexity.

Guenter

> select WATCHDOG_CORE
> select P2SB
> help
> --
> 2.41.0
>