Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] watchdog: realtek-otto: add fallback compatible

[Sander Vanheule]

On Fri, 2026-05-15 at 19:14 +0000, Rustam Adilov wrote:
> Hello Sander,
> On 2026-05-15 08:47, Sander Vanheule wrote:
> > Rustam, will you take it from here to add the two-part compatible for the
> > RTL9706C? Since you won't need update the driver, I guess a single patch
> > would
> > do.
> 
> I can for sure, but would you mind clarifying what needs to be done?
> From my understanding two-part compatible for RTL9607C would look like
> compatible = "realtek,rtl9607-wdt", "realtek,rtl8380-wdt";

As I understand from the maintainers, this is indeed the desired approach.

> But it's only gonna be relevant to OpenWrt for now.
> Do i need to patch the realtek,otto-wdt.yaml file in the same way as
> your patch 1 here?

Yes, you'll need to make a distinction between the new two-part compatible,
while still allowing the old one-part compatible (which then should not be
deprecated). Another binding that implements this is fsl-imx7ulp-wdt.yaml, so
you can also use that style, if you prefer.

Best,
Sander