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| author | Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> | 2016-01-03 15:11:58 -0800 |
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| committer | Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> | 2016-01-11 21:53:59 +0100 |
| commit | 0254e953537c92df3e7d0176f401a211e944fd61 (patch) | |
| tree | eee8c9b7645c2add9f49c71d39b0e31950ac7efb /Documentation/watchdog | |
| parent | 2c2f3080de7341f58a5d0e8ea31cc66dd369b8f4 (diff) | |
watchdog: Drop pointer to watchdog device from struct watchdog_device
The lifetime of the watchdog device pointer is different from the lifetime
of its character device. Remove it entirely to avoid race conditions.
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/watchdog')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt | 2 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt index 312f60009c3e..55120a055a14 100644 --- a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt +++ b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt @@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ The watchdog device structure looks like this: struct watchdog_device { int id; - struct device *dev; struct device *parent; const struct attribute_group **groups; const struct watchdog_info *info; @@ -66,7 +65,6 @@ It contains following fields: /dev/watchdog0 cdev (dynamic major, minor 0) as well as the old /dev/watchdog miscdev. The id is set automatically when calling watchdog_register_device. -* dev: device under the watchdog class (created by watchdog_register_device). * parent: set this to the parent device (or NULL) before calling watchdog_register_device. * groups: List of sysfs attribute groups to create when creating the watchdog |