On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 01:43:37PM -0800, Andrew Chew wrote:
> > > +static void tegra_wdt_unref(struct watchdog_device *wdd) {
> > > + struct tegra_wdt *wdt = watchdog_get_drvdata(wdd);
> > > +
> > > + kref_put(&wdt->kref, tegra_wdt_release_resources); }
> >
> > I forget why these were needed; they seem to do nothing.
>
> The reason I did the whole kref thing was by following the guidance
> in Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt, which says
> that if the watchdog_device struct is dynamically allocated, then
> one needs this.
>
I read that too, but I could not follow the logic behind it,
nor the explanation provided with the commit introducing it ;-)
Guenter
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