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authorKari Argillander <kari.argillander@gmail.com>2025-12-19 23:42:38 +0300
committerWim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>2026-01-18 12:56:10 +0300
commit439cf01b2e0030eed6020a03a7df4a528f8db7ba (patch)
treefa2db4c8c73ad4f332e510cdd813857771d24f1c
parentd303d37ef5cf86c8c3b2daefd2a7d7fd8ca1ec14 (diff)
downloadlinux-439cf01b2e0030eed6020a03a7df4a528f8db7ba.tar.xz
watchdog: Make API functions const correct
Many watchdog API functions do not modify the watchdog_device nor device. Mark their arguments as const to reflect this and improve const-correctness of the API. No functional change intended. Signed-off-by: Kari Argillander <kari.argillander@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.rst2
-rw-r--r--drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c3
-rw-r--r--include/linux/watchdog.h12
3 files changed, 10 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.rst b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.rst
index 243231fe4c0a..5649c54cf6fb 100644
--- a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.rst
+++ b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.rst
@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ To initialize the timeout field, the following function can be used::
extern int watchdog_init_timeout(struct watchdog_device *wdd,
unsigned int timeout_parm,
- struct device *dev);
+ const struct device *dev);
The watchdog_init_timeout function allows you to initialize the timeout field
using the module timeout parameter or by retrieving the timeout-sec property from
diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c
index 6152dba4b52c..8300520688d0 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c
@@ -117,7 +117,8 @@ static void watchdog_check_min_max_timeout(struct watchdog_device *wdd)
* bounds.
*/
int watchdog_init_timeout(struct watchdog_device *wdd,
- unsigned int timeout_parm, struct device *dev)
+ unsigned int timeout_parm,
+ const struct device *dev)
{
const char *dev_str = wdd->parent ? dev_name(wdd->parent) :
(const char *)wdd->info->identity;
diff --git a/include/linux/watchdog.h b/include/linux/watchdog.h
index 8c60687a3e55..62cdd26fd025 100644
--- a/include/linux/watchdog.h
+++ b/include/linux/watchdog.h
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ struct watchdog_device {
#define WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT_INIT_STATUS (WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT << WDOG_NO_WAY_OUT)
/* Use the following function to check whether or not the watchdog is active */
-static inline bool watchdog_active(struct watchdog_device *wdd)
+static inline bool watchdog_active(const struct watchdog_device *wdd)
{
return test_bit(WDOG_ACTIVE, &wdd->status);
}
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ static inline bool watchdog_active(struct watchdog_device *wdd)
* Use the following function to check whether or not the hardware watchdog
* is running
*/
-static inline bool watchdog_hw_running(struct watchdog_device *wdd)
+static inline bool watchdog_hw_running(const struct watchdog_device *wdd)
{
return test_bit(WDOG_HW_RUNNING, &wdd->status);
}
@@ -169,7 +169,8 @@ static inline void watchdog_stop_ping_on_suspend(struct watchdog_device *wdd)
}
/* Use the following function to check if a timeout value is invalid */
-static inline bool watchdog_timeout_invalid(struct watchdog_device *wdd, unsigned int t)
+static inline bool watchdog_timeout_invalid(const struct watchdog_device *wdd,
+ unsigned int t)
{
/*
* The timeout is invalid if
@@ -188,7 +189,7 @@ static inline bool watchdog_timeout_invalid(struct watchdog_device *wdd, unsigne
}
/* Use the following function to check if a pretimeout value is invalid */
-static inline bool watchdog_pretimeout_invalid(struct watchdog_device *wdd,
+static inline bool watchdog_pretimeout_invalid(const struct watchdog_device *wdd,
unsigned int t)
{
return t && wdd->timeout && t >= wdd->timeout;
@@ -218,7 +219,8 @@ static inline void watchdog_notify_pretimeout(struct watchdog_device *wdd)
/* drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c */
void watchdog_set_restart_priority(struct watchdog_device *wdd, int priority);
extern int watchdog_init_timeout(struct watchdog_device *wdd,
- unsigned int timeout_parm, struct device *dev);
+ unsigned int timeout_parm,
+ const struct device *dev);
extern int watchdog_register_device(struct watchdog_device *);
extern void watchdog_unregister_device(struct watchdog_device *);
int watchdog_dev_suspend(struct watchdog_device *wdd);