Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation: Refactored watchdog old doc

From: Guenter Roeck

Date: Fri Apr 10 2026 - 11:34:10 EST


On Fri, Apr 10, 2026 at 12:58:11PM +0530, Sunny Patel wrote:
> Good Point. So again revisited the watchdog core
> api and list out the deprecated one and marked
> as deprecated in doc and also mentioned it just
> for legacy driver and not for newer one.
>
> As someof the legacy driver still have reference
> to old api so just marked as deprecated in doc.
>
> Also checked with other watchdog related api
> which are deprecated in driver but still present
> in doc but didn't find any.
>
> ---

The above would show up as commit message, there is no change log, and
this e-mail was sent as response to v1. And I can see that without even
looking at the patch itself.

That makes me wonder what Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
is useful for. No one seems to bother reading it. We might as well
just remove it.

Guenter