Re: [PATCH v3] watchdog: Add hook for kicking in kdump path

[Wim Van Sebroeck]

Hi Guenter,

> > Only when you set the .parent field in the watchdog_device data you will get the
> > referal in the /sys/class/... tree. In iTCO_wdt.c you have the following code
> > that does that: iTCO_wdt_watchdog_dev.parent = dev->dev.parent;
> > 
> > From the watchdog-kernel-api documentation:
> > * parent: set this to the parent device (or NULL) before calling
> >   watchdog_register_device.
> > 
> Hi Wim,
> 
> We live and learn ... thanks a lot for the hint!

If it's about learning: the old way was via miscdevice.parent ... I think some "old"
drivers still do this.

Kind regards,
Wim.

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