Hi Paul, On 30 December 2017 at 19:21, Paul Cercueil <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > When the watchdog was configured for nowayout, and after the > userspace watchdog daemon closed the dev node without sending the > magic character, unloading this module stopped the watchdog > hardware, which was clearly a problem. > > Besides, unloading the module is not possible when the userspace > watchdog daemon is running, so it's safe to assume that we don't > need to stop the watchdog hardware in the jz4740_wdt_remove() > function. > > For this reason, the jz4740_wdt_remove() function can then be > dropped alltogether. > > Signed-off-by: Paul Cercueil <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/watchdog/jz4740_wdt.c | 8 -------- > 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-) > > v2: New patch in this series > > diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/jz4740_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/jz4740_wdt.c > index fa7f49a3212c..02b9b8e946a2 100644 > --- a/drivers/watchdog/jz4740_wdt.c > +++ b/drivers/watchdog/jz4740_wdt.c > @@ -205,16 +205,8 @@ static int jz4740_wdt_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) > return 0; > } > > -static int jz4740_wdt_remove(struct platform_device *pdev) > -{ > - struct jz4740_wdt_drvdata *drvdata = platform_get_drvdata(pdev); > - > - return jz4740_wdt_stop(&drvdata->wdt); > -} > - > static struct platform_driver jz4740_wdt_driver = { > .probe = jz4740_wdt_probe, > - .remove = jz4740_wdt_remove, > .driver = { > .name = "jz4740-wdt", > .of_match_table = of_match_ptr(jz4740_wdt_of_matches), > -- > 2.11.0 > > As ".remove" is removed and wdt is required for restarting the system I am thinking that stop callback is also not required. If so does it makes sense to remove the stop callback? I can submit a patch for the same once this patch series goes in. Regards, PrasannaKumar