On Wed, Dec 31, 2025 at 01:07:21PM +0100, Janne Grunau wrote:

After discussion with the devicetree maintainers we agreed to not extend lists with the generic compatible "apple,wdt" anymore [1]. Use "apple,t8103-wdt" as base compatible as it is the SoC the driver and bindings were written for.

I don't understand the rationake from the reference. This patch will need an Ack from a DT maintainer.

Thanks, Guenter

Fixes: 4ed224aeaf66 ("watchdog: Add Apple SoC watchdog driver") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Neal Gompa neal@gompa.dev Signed-off-by: Janne Grunau j@jannau.net

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This is split off from the v1 series adding Apple M2 Pro/Max/Ultra device trees in [2].

2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250828-dt-apple-t6020-v1-0-507ba4c4b98e@jannau.n...

drivers/watchdog/apple_wdt.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/apple_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/apple_wdt.c index 66a158f67a712bbed394d660071e02140e66c2e5..6b9b0f9b05cedfd7fc5d0d79ba19ab356dc2a080 100644 --- a/drivers/watchdog/apple_wdt.c +++ b/drivers/watchdog/apple_wdt.c @@ -218,6 +218,7 @@ static int apple_wdt_suspend(struct device *dev) static DEFINE_SIMPLE_DEV_PM_OPS(apple_wdt_pm_ops, apple_wdt_suspend, apple_wdt_resume); static const struct of_device_id apple_wdt_of_match[] = {

• { .compatible = "apple,t8103-wdt" }, { .compatible = "apple,wdt" }, {},

};

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base-commit: 8f0b4cce4481fb22653697cced8d0d04027cb1e8 change-id: 20251231-watchdog-apple-t8103-base-compat-8a623e9831b6

Best regards,

Janne Grunau j@jannau.net