From bb292ac1c6028344013309a309b44dc691581825 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guenter Roeck Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 14:21:10 -0800 Subject: watchdog: Introduce watchdog_stop_on_unregister helper Many watchdog drivers explicitly stop the watchdog when unregistering it. While it is unclear if this is actually needed (the whatdog should not be running at that time if it can be stopped), introduce a helper to explicitly stop the watchdog in the watchdog core when unregistering it. This helps reducing driver code size while retaining functionality. Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck --- Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/watchdog') diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt index ea277478982f..9b93953f69cf 100644 --- a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt +++ b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt @@ -280,6 +280,12 @@ To disable the watchdog on reboot, the user must call the following helper: static inline void watchdog_stop_on_reboot(struct watchdog_device *wdd); +To disable the watchdog when unregistering the watchdog, the user must call +the following helper. Note that this will only stop the watchdog if the +nowayout flag is not set. + +static inline void watchdog_stop_on_unregister(struct watchdog_device *wdd); + To change the priority of the restart handler the following helper should be used: -- cgit v1.2.3