On Iau, 2006-01-19 at 00:58 -0600, Kumar Gala wrote:

Since we can only open the watchdog once having a spinlock to protect
multiple access is pointless.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <redacted>

NAK

This is a common mistake.

open is called on the open() call and is indeed in this case 'single
open', but file handles can be inherited and many users may have access
to a single file handle.

eg

	f = open("/dev/watchdog", O_RDWR);
	fork();
	while(1) {
		write(f, "Boing", 5);
	}

Alan