Hi, I noticed that several watchdog drivers stop the watchdog in trhe driver remove function. A non-exhaustive list of drivers doing that is drivers/watchdog/bcm7038_wdt.c drivers/watchdog/cadence_wdt.c drivers/watchdog/imgpdc_wdt.c drivers/watchdog/jz4740_wdt.c drivers/watchdog/kempld_wdt.c drivers/watchdog/max77620_wdt.c drivers/watchdog/moxart_wdt.c drivers/watchdog/sama5d4_wdt.c drivers/watchdog/tangox_wdt.c drivers/watchdog/tegra_wdt.c Since a watchdog has to be closed for its driver to be removable, one situation where a watchdog is still running on unload is where the watchdog was opened but not closed properly (eg by killing the watchdog application, or if the 'nowayout' flag is set). Given that, does it even make sense to stop the watchdog in the remove function ? Should it even be permitted ? 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
