diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/sunxi-wdt.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/sunxi-wdt.txt
index e39cb266c8f4..b8f75c51453a 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/sunxi-wdt.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/sunxi-wdt.txt
@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@ Allwinner SoCs Watchdog timer
 
 Required properties:
 
-- compatible : should be "allwinner,<soc-family>-wdt", the currently supported
-  SoC families being sun4i and sun6i
+- compatible : should be either "allwinner,sun4i-a10-wdt" or
+               "allwinner,sun6i-a31-wdt"
 - reg : Specifies base physical address and size of the registers.
 
 Example:
 
 wdt: watchdog@01c20c90 {
-	compatible = "allwinner,sun4i-wdt";
+	compatible = "allwinner,sun4i-a10-wdt";
 	reg = <0x01c20c90 0x10>;
 };
diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/sunxi_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/sunxi_wdt.c
index 76332d893e12..cd00a7836cdc 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/sunxi_wdt.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/sunxi_wdt.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ static void sunxi_wdt_shutdown(struct platform_device *pdev)
 }
 
 static const struct of_device_id sunxi_wdt_dt_ids[] = {
-	{ .compatible = "allwinner,sun4i-wdt" },
+	{ .compatible = "allwinner,sun4i-a10-wdt" },
 	{ /* sentinel */ }
 };
 MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, sunxi_wdt_dt_ids);