[PATCH v2 4/5] watchdog: core: clean up some comments

From: Randy Dunlap

Date: Fri May 29 2026 - 17:20:39 EST


Fix some grammar typos and bulleted kernel-doc comment format.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
v2: no changes

Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-watchdog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c | 12 ++++++------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- linux-next-20260525.orig/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c
+++ linux-next-20260525/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c
@@ -55,9 +55,9 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(stop_on_reboot, "Stop w
* for example when it's impossible to disable it. To do so,
* raising the initcall level of the watchdog driver is a solution.
* But in such case, the miscdev is maybe not ready (subsys_initcall), and
- * watchdog_core need miscdev to register the watchdog as a char device.
+ * watchdog_core needs miscdev to register the watchdog as a char device.
*
- * The deferred registration infrastructure offer a way for the watchdog
+ * The deferred registration infrastructure offers a way for the watchdog
* subsystem to register a watchdog properly, even before miscdev is ready.
*/

@@ -222,11 +222,11 @@ static int watchdog_pm_notifier(struct n
* watchdog_set_restart_priority - Change priority of restart handler
* @wdd: watchdog device
* @priority: priority of the restart handler, should follow these guidelines:
- * 0: use watchdog's restart function as last resort, has limited restart
- * capabilies
- * 128: default restart handler, use if no other handler is expected to be
+ * * 0: use watchdog's restart function as last resort, has limited restart
+ * capabilities
+ * * 128: default restart handler, use if no other handler is expected to be
* available and/or if restart is sufficient to restart the entire system
- * 255: preempt all other handlers
+ * * 255: preempt all other handlers
*
* If a wdd->ops->restart function is provided when watchdog_register_device is
* called, it will be registered as a restart handler with the priority given