Re: [PATCH 0/3] watchdog: Drop pointer to watchdog device from struct watchdog_device

2016-01-03 Thread Guenter Roeck
On 01/03/2016 03:11 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote: The lifetime of the watchdog device pointer is different from the lifetime of its character device. Remove it entirely to avoid race conditions, and to make sure that drivers don't start to use it again. I should have mentioned: The series applies o

[PATCH 0/3] watchdog: Drop pointer to watchdog device from struct watchdog_device

2016-01-03 Thread Guenter Roeck
The lifetime of the watchdog device pointer is different from the lifetime of its character device. Remove it entirely to avoid race conditions, and to make sure that drivers don't start to use it again. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a mes