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| author | Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> | 2012-05-11 14:00:20 +0400 |
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| committer | Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> | 2012-05-30 09:54:46 +0400 |
| commit | d6b469d915ae348b3bb8b25034063d6870ff4a00 (patch) | |
| tree | 7bc00fa1870ba2fb1a7943c1a1d9e524752cb299 /Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt | |
| parent | 2bbeed016dd96045ec82c3a309afddcc3a0db1d2 (diff) | |
| download | linux-d6b469d915ae348b3bb8b25034063d6870ff4a00.tar.xz | |
watchdog: create all the proper device files
Create the watchdog class and it's associated devices.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt index 3c85fc7dc1f1..ce1fa22aa70b 100644 --- a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt +++ b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt @@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ The watchdog device structure looks like this: struct watchdog_device { int id; struct cdev cdev; + struct device *dev; + struct device *parent; const struct watchdog_info *info; const struct watchdog_ops *ops; unsigned int bootstatus; @@ -58,6 +60,9 @@ It contains following fields: watchdog_register_device. * cdev: cdev for the dynamic /dev/watchdog<id> device nodes. This field is also populated by watchdog_register_device. +* dev: device under the watchdog class (created by watchdog_register_device). +* parent: set this to the parent device (or NULL) before calling + watchdog_register_device. * info: a pointer to a watchdog_info structure. This structure gives some additional information about the watchdog timer itself. (Like it's unique name) * ops: a pointer to the list of watchdog operations that the watchdog supports. |