Re: [PATCH 05/62] watchdog: bcm2835_wdt: Convert to use device managed functions and other improvements

From: Eric Anholt
Date: Sat Jan 14 2017 - 01:27:57 EST


Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Use device managed functions to simplify error handling, reduce
> source code size, improve readability, and reduce the likelyhood of bugs.
> Other improvements as listed below.
>
> The conversion was done automatically with coccinelle using the
> following semantic patches. The semantic patches and the scripts used
> to generate this commit log are available at
> https://github.com/groeck/coccinelle-patches
>
> - Drop assignments to otherwise unused variables
> - Replace of_iomap() with platform_get_resource() followed by
> devm_ioremap_resource()

Every time I see this pattern I wish we had a
devm_ioremap_platform_resource().

> - Replace &pdev->dev with dev if 'struct device *dev' is a declared
> variable
> - Use devm_watchdog_register_driver() to register watchdog device
> - Replace shutdown function with call to watchdog_stop_on_reboot()

I'm trusting you here that this last change is right. All the rest of
it looks good:

Acked-by: Eric Anholt <eric@xxxxxxxxxx>

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