Re: [PATCH 12/22] watchdog: zx2967_wdt: Convert to use device managed functions and other improvements

Shawn Guo
2019-04-11T08:53:34Z

On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 09:27:53AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> Use device managed functions to simplify error handling, reduce
> source code size, improve readability, and reduce the likelyhood of bugs.
> Other improvements as listed below.
>
> The conversion was done automatically with coccinelle using the
> following semantic patches. The semantic patches and the scripts
> used to generate this commit log are available at
> https://github.com/groeck/coccinelle-patches
>
> - Drop assignments to otherwise unused variables
> - Drop empty remove function
> - Use devm_add_action_or_reset() for calls to clk_disable_unprepare
> - Use local variable 'struct device *dev' consistently
> - Use devm_watchdog_register_driver() to register watchdog device
>
> Cc: Jun Nie <jun.nie@linaro.org>
> Cc: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>

Acked-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>