watchdog: Drop pointer to watchdog device from struct watchdog_device

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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>

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Guenter Roeck 2016-01-03 15:11:58 -08:00 • committed by Wim Van Sebroeck

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4 changed files with 8 additions and 13 deletions

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Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt

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drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c

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drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c

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include/linux/watchdog.h

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