Hi Guenter, > On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 09:01:58PM +0100, Wim Van Sebroeck wrote: > > Hi Guenter, > > > > > > > > > > > > Any thoughts on the other patch series I sent out, to create the watchdog > > > > > device in watchdog_dev.c, and to handle reference counting in the watchdog > > > > > core ? That would be a prerequisite for me to rebase (and rework) the soft > > > > > timer handling core. I had hoped that the changes to handle reference > > > > > counting in the core could make it into 4.5. > > > > > > > > Need to review this 6-part patchset still. But probably still possible for 4.5 . > > > > > > That would be great. > > > > It's reviewed and added. I'm actually glad to have a nicer way than the ref/unref > > code that we had. > > > Great - thanks a lot! No problem. :-) Just to clarify to all others: the ref/unref code was added because we needed to address the issue of (let's call it) "hotswapping" of a watchdog device while it was still running. That issue (off-course) remains but this code moves the complexity in the watchdog core code instead of in the drivers. Which basically simplifies live for everyone. Kind regards, Wim. -- 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
