[PATCH v2 0/5] watchdog: Do not use 'dev' from watchdog_device in watchdog drivers

From	Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	[PATCH v2 0/5] watchdog: Do not use 'dev' from watchdog_device in watchdog drivers
Date	2015-12-24 23:30 +0100
Message-ID	<qJmyt-3WH-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
Organization	linux.* mail to news gateway

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The 'dev' variable in watchdog drivers has a different lifetime than the
watchdog character device and should therefore not be used by watchdog
drivers.

Some of the drivers use the variable to print kernel messages. Those
messages are either dropped or changed to use the parent device.
One driver sets the variable during initialization to the watchdog
driver's parent device, which is wrong and was removed.

v2: Use parent device for dev_XXX messages instead of pr_XXX.
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[PATCH v2 0/5] watchdog: Do not use 'dev' from watchdog_device in watchdog drivers Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> - 2015-12-24 23:30 +0100
  [PATCH v2 5/5] watchdog: qcom-wdt: Do not set 'dev' in struct watchdog_device Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> - 2015-12-24 23:30 +0100
  [PATCH v2 3/5] watchdog: gpio: Do not use device pointer from struct watchdog_device Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> - 2015-12-24 23:30 +0100
  [PATCH v2 4/5] watchdog: mena21: Do not use device pointer from struct watchdog_device Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> - 2015-12-24 23:30 +0100
  [PATCH v2 1/5] watchdog: bcm2835_wdt: Drop log message if watchdog is stopped Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> - 2015-12-24 23:30 +0100
  [PATCH v2 2/5] watchdog: tangox: Print info message using pointer to platform device Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> - 2015-12-24 23:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] watchdog: Do not use 'dev' from watchdog_device in watchdog drivers Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> - 2015-12-28 23:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] watchdog: Do not use 'dev' from watchdog_device  in watchdog drivers Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> - 2015-12-29 01:10 +0100

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