watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add basic framework

The WatchDog Timer Driver Core is a framework
that contains the common code for all watchdog-driver's.
It also introduces a watchdog device structure and the
operations that go with it.

This is the introduction of this framework. This part
supports the minimal watchdog userspace API (or with
other words: the functionality to use /dev/watchdog's
open, release and write functionality as defined in
the simplest watchdog API). Extra functionality will
follow in the next set of patches.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>

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+/*
+ *      watchdog_core.h
+ *
+ *      (c) Copyright 2008-2011 Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
+ *                                              All Rights Reserved.
+ *
+ *      (c) Copyright 2008-2011 Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>.
+ *
+ *      This source code is part of the generic code that can be used
+ *      by all the watchdog timer drivers.
+ *
+ *      Based on source code of the following authors:
+ *        Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>,
+ *        Rob Radez <rob@osinvestor.com>,
+ *        Rusty Lynch <rusty@linux.co.intel.com>
+ *        Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org>
+ *        Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
+ *
+ *      This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ *      modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+ *      as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
+ *      2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ *      Neither Alan Cox, CymruNet Ltd., Wim Van Sebroeck nor Iguana vzw.
+ *      admit liability nor provide warranty for any of this software.
+ *      This material is provided "AS-IS" and at no charge.
+ */
+
+/*
+ *      Functions/procedures to be called by the core
+ */
+int watchdog_dev_register(struct watchdog_device *);
+int watchdog_dev_unregister(struct watchdog_device *);