Re: [watchdog-next] watchdog: kill unref/ref ops

[Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>]

Hi Tomas,

> ref/unref ops are not called at all so even marked them as deprecated
> is misleading, we need to just drop the API.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/watchdog.h | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/watchdog.h b/include/linux/watchdog.h
> index 850af04fe0c7..aaabd4703b46 100644
> --- a/include/linux/watchdog.h
> +++ b/include/linux/watchdog.h
> @@ -47,8 +47,6 @@ struct watchdog_ops {
>  	int (*set_timeout)(struct watchdog_device *, unsigned int);
>  	unsigned int (*get_timeleft)(struct watchdog_device *);
>  	int (*restart)(struct watchdog_device *);
> -	void (*ref)(struct watchdog_device *) __deprecated;
> -	void (*unref)(struct watchdog_device *) __deprecated;
>  	long (*ioctl)(struct watchdog_device *, unsigned int, unsigned long);
>  };
>  
> -- 
> 2.4.3
> 

This patch has been added to linux-watchdog-next.

Kind regards,
Wim.