[PATCH v2 2/3] watchdog-kernel-api: Add registration deferral mechanism

From: Jean-Baptiste Theou
Date: Fri Jun 05 2015 - 21:47:17 EST


Add registration deferral mechanism capability information

Signed-off-by: Jean-Baptiste Theou <jtheou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt
index a0438f3..11c988b 100644
--- a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt
@@ -36,6 +36,10 @@ The watchdog_unregister_device routine deregisters a registered watchdog timer
device. The parameter of this routine is the pointer to the registered
watchdog_device structure.

+The watchdog subsystem contain an registration deferral mechanism,
+which allow you to register an watchdog as early as you wish during
+the boot process, in the situation of a built-in module.
+
The watchdog device structure looks like this:

struct watchdog_device {
--
2.4.2

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