Re: [PATCH 0/3] watchdog: Drop pointer to watchdog device from struct watchdog_device

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On 01/03/2016 03:11 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
The lifetime of the watchdog device pointer is different from the lifetime
of its character device. Remove it entirely to avoid race conditions, and
to make sure that drivers don't start to use it again.


I should have mentioned: The series applies on top of watchdog-next.

Guenter

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