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

From	Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 0/3] watchdog: Drop pointer to watchdog device from struct watchdog_device
Date	2016-01-11 22:40 +0100
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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

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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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