[RFC PATCH v2 0/4] watchdog: prevent removing a driver if NOWAYOUT

[Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>]

So, here is my second approach, now avoiding probe() and targetting the init
call. To avoid boilerplate, I introduced macros similar to module_driver(). It
still feels a little adventurous because of hard-coding '.remove' and
'.driver.suppress_bind_attts' in the macro and trusting various driver types
(like platform and PCI) to follow this structure.

Having all this said, it works nicely on my Renesas Salvator-XS (R-Car M3-N).
No reply from buildbot yet, but it is RFC only, so I'll send it out already. A
git branch can be found here:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux.git renesas/wdt-suppress-attr

Looking forward to comments.

Thanks,

   Wolfram

Wolfram Sang (4):
  watchdog: core: add mechanism to prevent removing if NOWAYOUT
  watchdog: renesas_wdt: avoid removing if NOWAYOUT
  watchdog: core: add module_watchdog_pci_driver()
  watchdog: i6300esb: avoid removing if NOWAYOUT

 drivers/watchdog/i6300esb.c    |  2 +-
 drivers/watchdog/renesas_wdt.c |  2 +-
 include/linux/watchdog.h       | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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