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

[Guenter Roeck]

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

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