I just can't find any value in MODULE_ALIAS_MISCDEV(WATCHDOG_MINOR)
and MODULE_ALIAS_MISCDEV(TEMP_MINOR) statements.

Either the device is enumerated and the driver already has a module
alias (e.g. PCI, USB etc.) that will get the right driver loaded
automatically.

Or the device is not enumerated and loading its driver will lead to
more or less intrusive hardware poking. Such hardware poking should be
limited to a bare minimum, so the user should really decide which
drivers should be tried and in what order. Trying them all in
arbitrary order can't do any good.

On top of that, loading that many drivers at once bloats the kernel
log. Also many drivers will stay loaded afterward, bloating the output
of "lsmod" and wasting memory. Some modules (cs5535_mfgpt which gets
loaded as a dependency) can't even be unloaded!

If defining char-major-10-130 is needed then it should happen in
user-space.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Cc: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Cc: Wan ZongShun <mcuos.com@gmail.com>
Cc: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Cc: Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@samsung.com>
Cc: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>

Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h preparatory to splitting and killing
it.  Performed with the following command:

perl -p -i -e 's!^#\s*include\s*<asm/system[.]h>.*\n!!' `grep -Irl '^#\s*include\s*<asm/system[.]h>' *`
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

nowayout is actually a boolean value.
So make it bool for all watchdog device drivers.
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>

Use the current logging styles.

Make sure all output has a prefix.
Add missing newlines.
Remove now unnecessary PFX, NAME, and miscellaneous other #defines.
Coalesce formats.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>

cleanup spaces before tabs in drivers/watchdog/
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>

Clean-up the watchdog drivers so that checkpatch.pl get's happy...
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>

Some more cleaning-up of the watchdog drivers.
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>

Move the sbc8360.c watchdog stop code into a seperate function.
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>

Review and switch to unlocked_ioctl
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>

Some watchdog drivers initialize global spinlocks in module's init function
which is tolerable, but some do it in PCI probe function.  So, switch to
static initialization to fix theoretical bugs and, more importantly, stop
giving people bad examples.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

move watchdog tree from drivers/char/watchdog to drivers/watchdog.
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>

It seems that some watchdog drivers are doing following mistake:

	rv = misc_register();
	if (rv < 0)
		return rv;
	rv = request_region();
	if (rv < 0) {
		misc_deregister();
		return rv;
	}

But, right after misc_register() returns, misc device can be opened and
ioctls interacting with hardware issued, and driver can do outb() to
port it doesn't own yet, because request_region() is still pending.

Here is my patch, compile-tested only.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>

change default=CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT in the module parameter
for nowayout by it's real value (0 or 1) by using:
__MODULE_STRING(WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT)
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>

The last argument of module_param is permissions, not default value.
Acked-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Mark the static struct file_operations in drivers/char as const.  Making
them const prevents accidental bugs, and moves them to the .rodata section
so that they no longer do any false sharing; in addition with the proper
debug option they are then protected against corruption..

[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

Attached patch removes #ifdef CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT mess and
replaces it with common define in linux/watchdog.h.
Signed-Off-By: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>

New SBC8360 watchdog driver patch

From: Ian E. Morgan <imorgan@webcon.ca>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>