From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933344AbcAKVcN (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jan 2016 16:32:13 -0500 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> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Authenticated_sender: guenter@roeck-us.net X-OutGoing-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - bh-25.webhostbox.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - roeck-us.net X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: bh-25.webhostbox.net: authenticated_id: guenter@roeck-us.net X-Authenticated-Sender: bh-25.webhostbox.net: guenter@roeck-us.net X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@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