From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752727AbcADDxw (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Jan 2016 22:53:52 -0500 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 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.4.0 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 X-Authenticated_sender: linux@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: linux@roeck-us.net X-Authenticated-Sender: bh-25.webhostbox.net: linux@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 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