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    [WATCHDOG] Fix pcwd_init_module crash · 647e50f3
    Wim Van Sebroeck authored
    Fix for the problem detected by Ingo Molnar:
    enabling CONFIG_PCWATCHDOG=y crashes bzImage bootup.
    
    The reason for this can be found in drivers/makefile
    We first do:
    obj-y                           += char/
    and later we do:
    obj-y                           += base/ block/ misc/ mfd/ net/ media/
    
    So if we put a platform or isa or usb bus driver in char/watchdog
    (which is called from the Makefile in drivers/char/Makefile)
    then we didn't have the different device drivers initialized yet
    (they are in drivers/base and drivers/usb and ...)
    
    This fix makes sure that we compile the watchdog drivers after
    drivers/base, drivers/misc, drivers/pci and drivers/usb.
    We also do the compile after hwmon because in the future the
    watchdog temperature support will use the hwmon system.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarWim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
    647e50f3
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