From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from bh-25.webhostbox.net ([208.91.199.152]:34401 "EHLO bh-25.webhostbox.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752190AbcADDxv (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Jan 2016 22:53:51 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] watchdog: Drop pointer to watchdog device from struct watchdog_device To: linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org References: <1451862718-31073-1-git-send-email-linux@roeck-us.net> Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck , Martyn Welch , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Guenter Roeck Message-ID: <5689ECCC.9070501@roeck-us.net> Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2016 19:53:48 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1451862718-31073-1-git-send-email-linux@roeck-us.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-watchdog-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org On 01/03/2016 03:11 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote: > 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. > I should have mentioned: The series applies on top of watchdog-next. Guenter