From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from bh-25.webhostbox.net ([208.91.199.152]:35066 "EHLO bh-25.webhostbox.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759403AbcAKVcL (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jan 2016 16:32:11 -0500 Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 13:32:10 -0800 From: Guenter Roeck To: Wim Van Sebroeck Cc: linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org, Martyn Welch , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] watchdog: Drop pointer to watchdog device from struct watchdog_device Message-ID: <20160111213210.GA12423@roeck-us.net> References: <1451862718-31073-1-git-send-email-linux@roeck-us.net> <20160111212918.GD6613@spo001.leaseweb.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160111212918.GD6613@spo001.leaseweb.nl> Sender: linux-watchdog-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org 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