watchdog: Add hardware dependency to BCM7038 driver
authorJean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Wed, 24 Feb 2016 15:17:26 +0000 (16:17 +0100)
committerWim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Tue, 1 Mar 2016 14:16:17 +0000 (15:16 +0100)
The BCM7038 watchdog driver is specific to Broadcom ARM and MIPS
SoCs so do not present it on other architectures, unless
build-testing.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Justin Chen <justinpopo6@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
drivers/watchdog/Kconfig

index fc1b2959c0b3d6e2abc280d8793ee4500a298097..5f29f72f4691cfff03eac65723391e653e245c13 100644 (file)
@@ -1380,10 +1380,12 @@ config BCM7038_WDT
        tristate "BCM7038 Watchdog"
        select WATCHDOG_CORE
        depends on HAS_IOMEM
+       depends on ARCH_BRCMSTB || BMIPS_GENERIC || COMPILE_TEST
        help
-        Watchdog driver for the built-in hardware in Broadcom 7038 SoCs.
-
-        Say 'Y or 'M' here to enable the driver.
+        Watchdog driver for the built-in hardware in Broadcom 7038 and
+        later SoCs used in set-top boxes.  BCM7038 was made public
+        during the 2004 CES, and since then, many Broadcom chips use this
+        watchdog block, including some cable modem chips.
 
 config IMGPDC_WDT
        tristate "Imagination Technologies PDC Watchdog Timer"