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 <[email protected]> Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Mingarelli <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
kishon · Jul 30, 2008 · d667b6d · d667b6d
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diff --git 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)