Use device managed functions to simplify error handling, reduce source code size, improve readability, and reduce the likelyhood of bugs. The conversion was done automatically with coccinelle using the following semantic patches. The semantic patches and the scripts used to generate this commit log are available at https://github.com/groeck/coccinelle-patches - Replace &pdev->dev with dev if 'struct device *dev' is a declared variable - Use devm_watchdog_register_driver() to register watchdog device Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/watchdog/nic7018_wdt.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/nic7018_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/nic7018_wdt.c index dcd265685837..27b7c7737149 100644 --- a/drivers/watchdog/nic7018_wdt.c +++ b/drivers/watchdog/nic7018_wdt.c @@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ static int nic7018_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) /* Unlock WDT register */ outb(UNLOCK, wdt->io_base + WDT_REG_LOCK); - ret = watchdog_register_device(wdd); + ret = devm_watchdog_register_device(dev, wdd); if (ret) { outb(LOCK, wdt->io_base + WDT_REG_LOCK); dev_err(dev, "failed to register watchdog\n"); @@ -235,8 +235,6 @@ static int nic7018_remove(struct platform_device *pdev) { struct nic7018_wdt *wdt = platform_get_drvdata(pdev); - watchdog_unregister_device(&wdt->wdd); - /* Lock WDT register */ outb(LOCK, wdt->io_base + WDT_REG_LOCK); -- 2.7.4 -- 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