Hi Guenter, > 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. This patchset has been added to linux-watchdog-next. 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