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

Guenter Roeck
2016-01-04T03:53:52Z

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