Hi Guenter, > The 'dev' variable in watchdog drivers has a different lifetime than the > watchdog character device and should therefore not be used by watchdog > drivers. > > Some of the drivers use the variable to print kernel messages. Those > messages are either dropped or changed to use the parent device. > One driver sets the variable during initialization to the watchdog > driver's parent device, which is wrong and was removed. > > v2: Use parent device for dev_XXX messages instead of pr_XXX.
This patchset has been added to linux-watchdog-next. Kind regards, Wim. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
