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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 22:29:18 +0100
From: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
To: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
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        Martyn Welch <martyn.welch@collabora.co.uk>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] watchdog: Drop pointer to watchdog device from struct watchdog_device
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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.