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From: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
To: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
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Subject: Re: Additional patches in my watchdog-next branch
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Hi Wim,

On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 09:01:58PM +0100, Wim Van Sebroeck wrote:
> Hi Guenter,
> 
> > > > 
> > > > Any thoughts on the other patch series I sent out, to create the watchdog
> > > > device in watchdog_dev.c, and to handle reference counting in the watchdog
> > > > core ? That would be a prerequisite for me to rebase (and rework) the soft
> > > > timer handling core. I had hoped that the changes to handle reference
> > > > counting in the core could make it into 4.5.
> > > 
> > > Need to review this 6-part patchset still. But probably still possible for 4.5 .
> > 
> > That would be great.
> 
> It's reviewed and added. I'm actually glad to have a nicer way than the ref/unref
> code that we had.
> 
Great - thanks a lot!

Guenter