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

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Sat Jun 06 2015 - 00:26:43 EST


On 06/05/2015 06:46 PM, Jean-Baptiste Theou wrote:
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,

contains, or maybe better includes.

+which allow you to register an watchdog as early as you wish during

allows

+the boot process, in the situation of a built-in module.

Drop part after the , as irrelevant.

Please merge this patch into the first patch; no need to keep it separate.

Thanks,
Guenter

+
The watchdog device structure looks like this:

struct watchdog_device {


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