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: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NWim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>

drivers/char/watchdog/machzwd.c: In function 'zf_ioctl':
drivers/char/watchdog/machzwd.c:327: warning: passing argument 1 of 'zf_ping' makes integer from pointer without a cast

Also some coding-style repairs.
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: NWim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

drivers/char/watchdog/machzwd.c: In function 'zf_ioctl':
drivers/char/watchdog/machzwd.c:327: warning: passing argument 1 of 'zf_ping' makes integer from pointer without a cast
Signed-off-by: NWim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

- Use timer macros to set function and data members and to modify
  expiration time.
- Use DEFINE_TIMER for single (platform dependent) watchdog timers and
  do not init them at run-time in these cases.
- del_timer_sync is common in most cases -- we want to wait for timer
  function if it's still running.
Signed-off-by: NJiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Steve Hill <steve@navaho.co.uk>
Cc: Heiko Ronsdorf <hero@ihg.uni-duisburg.de>
Cc: Fernando Fuganti <fuganti@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Gergely Madarasz <gorgo@itc.hu>
Cc: Ken Hollis <khollis@bitgate.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: NWim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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: NWim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>

On a machine with no machzwd, loading the module prints out..

machzwd: MachZ ZF-Logic Watchdog driver initializing.
0xffff
machzwd: Watchdog using action = RESET

- the 0xffff printk is unnecessary
- 0xffff seems to be 'hardware not present'
- fix CodingStyle. (This driver could use some more work here)
Signed-off-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NWim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>

Return ENOTTY instead of ENOIOCTLCMD in user-visible ioctl() results

The watchdog drivers used to return ENOIOCTLCMD for bad ioctl() commands.
ENOIOCTLCMD should not be visible by the user, so use ENOTTY instead.
Signed-off-by: NSamuel Tardieu <sam@rfc1149.net>
Signed-off-by: NWim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Acked-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@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: NArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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

Attached patch removes #ifdef CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT mess duplicated in
almost every watchdog driver and replaces it with common define in
linux/watchdog.h.
Signed-off-by: NAndrey Panin <pazke@donpac.ru>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!