Otherwise, the gpiolib autorequest feature will produce a WARN_ON(): WARNING: at drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c:101 0x8020ec6c() autorequest GPIO-215 [...] CC:stable@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <florian@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- Changes since v1: - use gpio_request_one() - added missing gpio_free() in mtx1_wdt_remove Stable: [2.6.39+] diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/mtx-1_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/mtx-1_wdt.c index 63df28c..9b63642 100644 --- a/drivers/watchdog/mtx-1_wdt.c +++ b/drivers/watchdog/mtx-1_wdt.c @@ -214,6 +214,12 @@ static int __devinit mtx1_wdt_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) int ret; mtx1_wdt_device.gpio = pdev->resource[0].start; + ret = gpio_request_one(mtx1_wdt_device.gpio, + GPIOF_OUT_INIT_HIGH,"mtx1-wdt"); + if (ret < 0) { + dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to request gpio"); + return ret; + } spin_lock_init(&mtx1_wdt_device.lock); init_completion(&mtx1_wdt_device.stop); @@ -239,6 +245,8 @@ static int __devexit mtx1_wdt_remove(struct platform_device *pdev) mtx1_wdt_device.queue = 0; wait_for_completion(&mtx1_wdt_device.stop); } + + gpio_free(mtx1_wdt_device.gpio); misc_deregister(&mtx1_wdt_misc); return 0; } -- 1.7.4.1