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authorWolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>2011-12-02 00:43:11 +0100
committerWim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>2012-01-06 15:26:14 +0100
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watchdog: documentation: describe nowayout in coversion-guide
nowayout is also handled by the watchdog core. Describe how this needs to be addressed in the conversion guide. Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
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@@ -163,6 +163,25 @@ Here is a simple example for a watchdog device:
+};
+Handle the 'nowayout' feature
+-----------------------------
+
+A few drivers use nowayout statically, i.e. there is no module parameter for it
+and only CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT determines if the feature is going to be
+used. This needs to be converted by initializing the status variable of the
+watchdog_device like this:
+
+ .status = WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT_INIT_STATUS,
+
+Most drivers, however, also allow runtime configuration of nowayout, usually
+by adding a module parameter. The conversion for this would be something like:
+
+ watchdog_set_nowayout(&s3c2410_wdd, nowayout);
+
+The module parameter itself needs to stay, everything else related to nowayout
+can go, though. This will likely be some code in open(), close() or write().
+
+
Register the watchdog device
----------------------------