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

From	Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	[PATCH 0/3] watchdog: Drop pointer to watchdog device from struct watchdog_device
Date	2016-01-04 00:20 +0100
Message-ID	<qN06l-3AM-13@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
Organization	linux.* mail to news gateway

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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.
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[PATCH 0/3] watchdog: Drop pointer to watchdog device from struct watchdog_device Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> - 2016-01-04 00:20 +0100
  [PATCH 1/3] watchdog: Add support for creating driver specific sysfs attributes Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> - 2016-01-04 00:20 +0100
  [PATCH 3/3] watchdog: Drop pointer to watchdog device from struct watchdog_device Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> - 2016-01-04 00:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 0/3] watchdog: Drop pointer to watchdog device from struct  watchdog_device Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> - 2016-01-04 05:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 0/3] watchdog: Drop pointer to watchdog device from struct watchdog_device Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> - 2016-01-11 22:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 0/3] watchdog: Drop pointer to watchdog device from  struct watchdog_device Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> - 2016-01-11 22:40 +0100

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