[MPCore Watchdog]: Convert from misc_dev to dynamic device node.

[arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)]

On Wednesday 15 June 2011 21:09:45 Jamie Iles wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 11:57:12AM -0700, Peter Fordham wrote:
> > > I've added Wim (watchdog driver maintainer), but I would think that if
> > > this change is worth doing then it should be done for all drivers.
> > 
> > Agreed, but today this may be more work than I'm strictly interested in
> > doing. If we do decide it's the right thing then I'll look into converting the
> > other drivers later.
> 
> So I'm not fully aware of what particular problem this is solving, but 
> if it is needed for this driver then it should really be done for all of 
> them.  That's probably one for Wim to answer though.  Wim posted a 
> series for a generic watchdog framework a while back[1] but this still 
> made use of a misc device.

Let's first wait until the generic watchdog framework gets merged and
the drivers are converted. After that is in, we can discuss further changes.

I highly doubt that making an incompatible API change benefits anyone here,
but it certainly shouldn't be done for a single driver that is separate from
the framework.

	Arnd