From: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
To: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Cc: linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org,
Martyn Welch <martyn.welch@collabora.co.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] watchdog: Drop pointer to watchdog device from struct watchdog_device
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 13:32:10 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160111213210.GA12423@roeck-us.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160111212918.GD6613@spo001.leaseweb.nl>
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 10:29:18PM +0100, Wim Van Sebroeck wrote:
> Hi Guenter,
>
> > 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.
>
> This patchset has been added to linux-watchdog-next.
>
Thanks!
Guenter
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-11 21:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-03 23:11 [PATCH 0/3] watchdog: Drop pointer to watchdog device from struct watchdog_device Guenter Roeck
2016-01-03 23:11 ` [PATCH 1/3] watchdog: Add support for creating driver specific sysfs attributes Guenter Roeck
2016-01-03 23:11 ` [PATCH 2/3] watchdog: ziirave: Use watchdog infrastructure to create " Guenter Roeck
2016-01-08 10:16 ` Martyn Welch
2016-01-03 23:11 ` [PATCH 3/3] watchdog: Drop pointer to watchdog device from struct watchdog_device Guenter Roeck
2016-01-04 3:53 ` [PATCH 0/3] " Guenter Roeck
2016-01-11 21:29 ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2016-01-11 21:32 ` Guenter Roeck [this message]
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