The obvious advantages are:

 - The linker can drop the watchdog functions if CONFIG_WATCHDOG is off.
 - All watchdog stuff grouped together with only a single function call
   left in generic code.
 - Watchdog register is only read when it is actually used.
 - Less #ifdefery
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200924105256.18162-2-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de