[PATCH] powerpc: remove useless spinlock from mpc83xx watchdog

[Alan Cox]

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 <galak at kernel.crashing.org>

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