linux-kernel - setting miscdevice.parent after misc

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Date:	Tue, 8 Jun 2010 12:11:44 +0900
From:	Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>
To:	Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@...ana.be>,
	Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hcegtvedt@...el.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: setting miscdevice.parent after misc_register()

In drivers/watchdog/at32ap700x_wdt.c, and drivers/watchdog/sch311x_wdt.c
miscdevice.parent is set after misc_register().

drivers/watchdog/at32ap700x_wdt.c:

	ret = misc_register(&wdt->miscdev);
	...
	wdt->miscdev.parent = &pdev->dev;

But it does nothing. (the miscdevice will not be a child of that parent
device in sysfs)

So should it be set before misc_register() or just keep it as-is?
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