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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 /include/linux/watchdog.h | |
| 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 'include/linux/watchdog.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/watchdog.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/watchdog.h b/include/linux/watchdog.h index 076df50ea0da..b585fa2507ee 100644 --- a/include/linux/watchdog.h +++ b/include/linux/watchdog.h @@ -53,7 +53,6 @@ struct watchdog_ops { /** struct watchdog_device - The structure that defines a watchdog device * * @id: The watchdog's ID. (Allocated by watchdog_register_device) - * @dev: The device for our watchdog * @parent: The parent bus device * @groups: List of sysfs attribute groups to create when creating the * watchdog device. @@ -82,7 +81,6 @@ struct watchdog_ops { */ struct watchdog_device { int id; - struct device *dev; struct device *parent; const struct attribute_group **groups; const struct watchdog_info *info; |