On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 08:14:11PM +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> Those functions are not only deprecated, but gone for good.
>
> Fixes: 62cd1c40ce1c ("watchdog: kill unref/ref ops")
> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt | 4 ----
> 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt
> index 9b93953f69cf..3a91ef5af044 100644
> --- a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt
> @@ -128,8 +128,6 @@ struct watchdog_ops {
> int (*set_pretimeout)(struct watchdog_device *, unsigned int);
> unsigned int (*get_timeleft)(struct watchdog_device *);
> int (*restart)(struct watchdog_device *);
> - void (*ref)(struct watchdog_device *) __deprecated;
> - void (*unref)(struct watchdog_device *) __deprecated;
> long (*ioctl)(struct watchdog_device *, unsigned int, unsigned long);
> };
>
> @@ -218,8 +216,6 @@ they are supported. These optional routines/operations are:
> if a command is not supported. The parameters that are passed to the ioctl
> call are: watchdog_device, cmd and arg.
>
> -The 'ref' and 'unref' operations are no longer used and deprecated.
> -
> The status bits should (preferably) be set with the set_bit and clear_bit alike
> bit-operations. The status bits that are defined are:
> * WDOG_ACTIVE: this status bit indicates whether or not a watchdog timer device
> --
> 2.19.1
>
