From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:33:26 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: hpwdt: don't use static flags
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.27-rc2~187
X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d667b6ddbcdc036a27407c8b2c1243f1dfd69e26;p=linux-2.6

hpwdt: don't use static flags

Static (read: global) is potential problem.  Two threads can corrupt each
other's interrupt status, better avoid this.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Cc: Thomas Mingarelli <thomas.mingarelli@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c
index eaa3f2a79f..ccd6c53078 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c
@@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ static int __devinit detect_cru_service(void)
 static int hpwdt_pretimeout(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long ulReason,
 			    void *data)
 {
-	static unsigned long rom_pl;
+	unsigned long rom_pl;
 	static int die_nmi_called;
 
 	if (ulReason != DIE_NMI && ulReason != DIE_NMI_IPI)