Certain watchdogs require the watchdog only to be pinged within a
specific time window, pinging too early or too late cause the watchdog
to fire. In cases where this sort of watchdog has been started before
kernel comes up, we must adjust the watchdog keepalive window to match
the actually running timer, so add a new driver API for this purpose.
Signed-off-by: Tero Kristo <t-kristo@ti.com>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200717132958.14304-3-t-kristo@ti.com
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>
The commit d0684c8a93 ("watchdog: Make stop function optional")
made stop function not mandatory, but the comments
and the doc weren't reflected. Fix it to clarify.
Signed-off-by: Bumsik Kim <k.bumsik@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200403031507.63487-1-k.bumsik@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Convert those documents and prepare them to be part of the kernel
API book, as most of the stuff there are related to the
Kernel interfaces.
Still, in the future, it would make sense to split the docs,
as some of the stuff is clearly focused on sysadmin tasks.
The conversion is actually:
- add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs;
- fix tables markups;
- add some lists markups;
- mark literal blocks;
- adjust title markups.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
