watchdog: ixp4xx: Rewrite driver to use core
This rewrites the IXP4xx watchdog driver as follows: - Spawn the watchdog driver as a platform device from the timer driver. It's one device in the hardware, and the fact that Linux splits the handling into two different devices is a Linux pecularity, and thus it becomes a Linux pecularity to spawn a separate watchdog driver. - Spawn the watchdog driver from the timer driver at probe(). This is well after the timer driver as actually registered and started and we know the register base is available. - Instead of looping back callbacks to the timer drivers for all watchdog calls, pass the register base to the watchdog driver and manage the registers there. The two drivers aren't even interested in the same register so the spinlock is totally surplus, delete it. - Replace pretty much all of the content in the watchdog driver with a simple, modern watchdog driver utilizing the watchdog core instead of registering its own misc device and...
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