Hi, I keep being puzzled about the ref/unref functions for watchdog drivers. Hardly any driver implements those functions, even though many allocate the watchdog_device data structure dynamically. At the same time, I don't recall ever seeing a crash or traceback because of it. Granted, many watchdogs are only loaded and never unloaded, but one should think that the problem is seen at least once in a while. Does anyone know how to trigger the problem which makes the ref/unref functions necessary ? I would like to reproduce it and then try to find a better solution, ie one that doesn't need those functions in the drivers (seems to me the infrastructure should ensure that a driver isn't unloaded while in use). Thanks, Guenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-watchdog" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
