On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 09:11:28PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote: > The 'dev' variable in watchdog drivers has a different lifetime than the > watchdog character device and should therefore not be used by watchdog > drivers. > > Some of the drivers use the variable to print kernel messages. Those are > either dropped or converted to use pr_ functions. One driver sets the > variable during initialization to the watchdog driver's parent device, > which is wrong and also removed. Hi Guenter, For gpio_wdt and mena21_wdt, wdd->parent is set and could be used for dev_* printings. Do you prefer to keep this variable only for watchdog core internal usage? Otherwise, the serie looks good. Thanks, Damien -- 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
