[PATCH 55/62] watchdog: sunxi_wdt: Convert to use device managed functions and other improvements

Maxime Ripard maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com
Wed Jan 11 04:15:28 PST 2017


On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 06:09:09PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> Use device managed functions to simplify error handling, reduce
> source code size, improve readability, and reduce the likelyhood of bugs.
> Other improvements as listed below.
> 
> The conversion was done automatically with coccinelle using the
> following semantic patches. The semantic patches and the scripts used
> to generate this commit log are available at
> https://github.com/groeck/coccinelle-patches
> 
> - Drop assignments to otherwise unused variables
> - Drop remove function
> - Drop platform_set_drvdata()
> - Use devm_watchdog_register_driver() to register watchdog device
> - Replace shutdown function with call to watchdog_stop_on_reboot()
> 
> Cc: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com>
> Cc: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens at csie.org>
> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux at roeck-us.net>

Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com>

Thanks!
Maxime

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Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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