Re: [PATCH 0/3] watchdog: Drop pointer to watchdog device from struct watchdog_device

Wim Van Sebroeck
2016-01-11T21:29:21Z

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.

Kind regards,
Wim.