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

[Guenter Roeck]

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