[PATCH 0/6] Subset of watchdog fixes

From: Alan Cox
Date: Mon Aug 04 2008 - 13:10:26 EST


These have been pending since May with Wim occasionally surfacing to promise
something will happen then vanishing again with nothing moved on.

The patch set is a tiny subset of the complete set of patches to clean up the
locking bugs, switch to unlocked_ioctl and the like for watchdog drivers

These specific ones are the ones that
- Remove use of inb_p() on PCI bus which is unsafe with some newer boxes
- Switch from using a sempahore held across the return to user space for
watchdog locking - and thus help remove more users of down_trylock.


drivers/watchdog/ar7_wdt.c | 29 ++--
drivers/watchdog/it8712f_wdt.c | 77 ++++------
drivers/watchdog/s3c2410_wdt.c | 148 +++++++++++---------
drivers/watchdog/sc1200wdt.c | 205 +++++++++++++++------------
drivers/watchdog/wdt.c | 176 ++++++++++++-----------
drivers/watchdog/wdt_pci.c | 301 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
6 files changed, 503 insertions(+), 433 deletions(-)

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