Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-watchdog

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-watchdog: (25 commits)
  watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add minimum and max timeout
  watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add ioctl call
  watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add nowayout feature
  watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add Magic Close feature
  watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add WDIOC_SETTIMEOUT and WDIOC_GETTIMEOUT ioctl
  watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add WDIOC_SETOPTIONS ioctl
  watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add WDIOC_KEEPALIVE ioctl
  watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add basic ioctl functionality
  watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add basic framework
  watchdog: hpwdt: add next gen HP servers
  watchdog: it8712f_wdt.c: improve includes
  watchdog: at91sam9/wdt: move register header to drivers
  watchdog: Add Xilinx watchdog timer driver
  watchdog: remove empty pm-functions
  watchdog: sp805: Flush posted writes in enable/disable.
  watchdog: sp805: Don't write 0 to the load value register.
  watchdog: imx2_wdt: add device tree probe support
  watchdog: s3c2410: Add support for device tree based probe
  watchdog: mpcore_wdt: Add suspend/resume support.
  watchdog: mtx1-wdt: use dev_{err,info} instead of printk()
  ...

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diff --git a/include/linux/watchdog.h b/include/linux/watchdog.h
index 011bcfeb9f09..111843f88b2a 100644
--- a/include/linux/watchdog.h
+++ b/include/linux/watchdog.h
@@ -59,6 +59,84 @@ struct watchdog_info {
 #define WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT	0
 #endif
 
+struct watchdog_ops;
+struct watchdog_device;
+
+/** struct watchdog_ops - The watchdog-devices operations
+ *
+ * @owner:	The module owner.
+ * @start:	The routine for starting the watchdog device.
+ * @stop:	The routine for stopping the watchdog device.
+ * @ping:	The routine that sends a keepalive ping to the watchdog device.
+ * @status:	The routine that shows the status of the watchdog device.
+ * @set_timeout:The routine for setting the watchdog devices timeout value.
+ * @ioctl:	The routines that handles extra ioctl calls.
+ *
+ * The watchdog_ops structure contains a list of low-level operations
+ * that control a watchdog device. It also contains the module that owns
+ * these operations. The start and stop function are mandatory, all other
+ * functions are optonal.
+ */
+struct watchdog_ops {
+	struct module *owner;
+	/* mandatory operations */
+	int (*start)(struct watchdog_device *);
+	int (*stop)(struct watchdog_device *);
+	/* optional operations */
+	int (*ping)(struct watchdog_device *);
+	unsigned int (*status)(struct watchdog_device *);
+	int (*set_timeout)(struct watchdog_device *, unsigned int);
+	long (*ioctl)(struct watchdog_device *, unsigned int, unsigned long);
+};
+
+/** struct watchdog_device - The structure that defines a watchdog device
+ *
+ * @info:	Pointer to a watchdog_info structure.
+ * @ops:	Pointer to the list of watchdog operations.
+ * @bootstatus:	Status of the watchdog device at boot.
+ * @timeout:	The watchdog devices timeout value.
+ * @min_timeout:The watchdog devices minimum timeout value.
+ * @max_timeout:The watchdog devices maximum timeout value.
+ * @driver-data:Pointer to the drivers private data.
+ * @status:	Field that contains the devices internal status bits.
+ *
+ * The watchdog_device structure contains all information about a
+ * watchdog timer device.
+ *
+ * The driver-data field may not be accessed directly. It must be accessed
+ * via the watchdog_set_drvdata and watchdog_get_drvdata helpers.
+ */
+struct watchdog_device {
+	const struct watchdog_info *info;
+	const struct watchdog_ops *ops;
+	unsigned int bootstatus;
+	unsigned int timeout;
+	unsigned int min_timeout;
+	unsigned int max_timeout;
+	void *driver_data;
+	unsigned long status;
+/* Bit numbers for status flags */
+#define WDOG_ACTIVE		0	/* Is the watchdog running/active */
+#define WDOG_DEV_OPEN		1	/* Opened via /dev/watchdog ? */
+#define WDOG_ALLOW_RELEASE	2	/* Did we receive the magic char ? */
+#define WDOG_NO_WAY_OUT		3	/* Is 'nowayout' feature set ? */
+};
+
+/* Use the following functions to manipulate watchdog driver specific data */
+static inline void watchdog_set_drvdata(struct watchdog_device *wdd, void *data)
+{
+	wdd->driver_data = data;
+}
+
+static inline void *watchdog_get_drvdata(struct watchdog_device *wdd)
+{
+	return wdd->driver_data;
+}
+
+/* drivers/watchdog/core/watchdog_core.c */
+extern int watchdog_register_device(struct watchdog_device *);
+extern void watchdog_unregister_device(struct watchdog_device *);
+
 #endif	/* __KERNEL__ */
 
 #endif  /* ifndef _LINUX_WATCHDOG_H */