[MPCore Watchdog]: Convert from misc_dev to dynamic device node.

On Wednesday 15 June 2011 21:09:45 Jamie Iles wrote:

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 11:57:12AM -0700, Peter Fordham wrote:

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I've added Wim (watchdog driver maintainer), but I would think that if
this change is worth doing then it should be done for all drivers.

Agreed, but today this may be more work than I'm strictly interested in
doing. If we do decide it's the right thing then I'll look into converting the
other drivers later.

So I'm not fully aware of what particular problem this is solving, but 
if it is needed for this driver then it should really be done for all of 
them.  That's probably one for Wim to answer though.  Wim posted a 
series for a generic watchdog framework a while back[1] but this still 
made use of a misc device.

Let's first wait until the generic watchdog framework gets merged and
the drivers are converted. After that is in, we can discuss further changes.

I highly doubt that making an incompatible API change benefits anyone here,
but it certainly shouldn't be done for a single driver that is separate from
the framework.

	Arnd