Re: [PATCH v6 4/8] watchdog: rzv2h: Propagate WDTDCR access errors

From: Guenter Roeck

Date: Wed Sep 23 2026 - 17:20:00 EST


On Wed, Sep 23, 2026 at 11:40:50AM +0100, Prabhakar wrote:
> From: Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The WDTDCR helpers access the register directly using readl()/writel() and
> therefore cannot report failures to their callers. WDTDCR is located in a
> shared syscon region and will be accessed through regmap in a subsequent
> change, where register accesses can fail.

For real or just theoretically ? If for real, warranting the quite
substantial and invasive error handling code in this patch, this
really needs to be explained further.

Thanks,
Guenter