watchdog: make nowayout sysfs file writable

It can be useful to delay setting the nowayout feature for a watchdog
device. Moreover, not every driver (notably gpio_wdt) implements a
nowayout module parameter/otherwise respects CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT,
and modifying those drivers carries a risk of causing a regression for
someone who has two watchdog devices, sets CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT
and somehow relies on the gpio_wdt driver being ignorant of
that (i.e., allowing one to gracefully close a gpio_wdt but not the
other watchdog in the system).

So instead, simply make the nowayout sysfs file writable. Obviously,
setting nowayout is a one-way street.

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191105205118.11359-1-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-watchdog b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-watchdog
index 675f9b537661..9860a8b2ba75 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-watchdog
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-watchdog
@@ -17,8 +17,13 @@ What:		/sys/class/watchdog/watchdogn/nowayout
 Date:		August 2015
 Contact:	Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
 Description:
-		It is a read only file. While reading, it gives '1' if that
-		device supports nowayout feature else, it gives '0'.
+		It is a read/write file. While reading, it gives '1'
+		if the device has the nowayout feature set, otherwise
+		it gives '0'. Writing a '1' to the file enables the
+		nowayout feature. Once set, the nowayout feature
+		cannot be disabled, so writing a '0' either has no
+		effect (if the feature was already disabled) or
+		results in a permission error.
 
 What:		/sys/class/watchdog/watchdogn/state
 Date:		August 2015