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| author | Bumsik Kim <kbumsik@gmail.com> | 2020-04-03 06:15:07 +0300 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2020-04-21 02:11:36 +0300 |
| commit | 4951d27b099bd24f87a093f67d91618742bd3a65 (patch) | |
| tree | 94cb59d26f9f893236ec26078170a138ff103993 /Documentation/watchdog | |
| parent | fc965497d5b3204d7b726c27fefe92d2e885f994 (diff) | |
| download | linux-4951d27b099bd24f87a093f67d91618742bd3a65.tar.xz | |
watchdog: clarify that stop() is optional
The commit d0684c8a9354 ("watchdog: Make stop function optional")
made stop function not mandatory, but the comments
and the doc weren't reflected. Fix it to clarify.
Signed-off-by: Bumsik Kim <k.bumsik@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200403031507.63487-1-k.bumsik@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/watchdog')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/watchdog/convert_drivers_to_kernel_api.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.rst | 2 |
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/convert_drivers_to_kernel_api.rst b/Documentation/watchdog/convert_drivers_to_kernel_api.rst index dd934cc08e40..51b999b5551a 100644 --- a/Documentation/watchdog/convert_drivers_to_kernel_api.rst +++ b/Documentation/watchdog/convert_drivers_to_kernel_api.rst @@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ Add the watchdog operations --------------------------- All possible callbacks are defined in 'struct watchdog_ops'. You can find it -explained in 'watchdog-kernel-api.txt' in this directory. start(), stop() and +explained in 'watchdog-kernel-api.txt' in this directory. start() and owner must be set, the rest are optional. You will easily find corresponding functions in the old driver. Note that you will now get a pointer to the watchdog_device as a parameter to these functions, so you probably have to diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.rst b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.rst index 864edbe932c1..068a55ee0d4a 100644 --- a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.rst +++ b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.rst @@ -123,8 +123,8 @@ The list of watchdog operations is defined as:: struct module *owner; /* mandatory operations */ int (*start)(struct watchdog_device *); - int (*stop)(struct watchdog_device *); /* optional operations */ + int (*stop)(struct watchdog_device *); int (*ping)(struct watchdog_device *); unsigned int (*status)(struct watchdog_device *); int (*set_timeout)(struct watchdog_device *, unsigned int); |