The FIXME comment has been in-tree since the very first git commit. The described behavior has been since relied on by some userspace, e.g. the util-linux wdctl command and has been ignored by some kernelspace, like the f71808e_wdt driver. The functionality is useful to have to be able to differentiate between a driver that doesn't support WDIOF_CARDRESET and one that does, but hasn't had a watchdog reset, thus drop the FIXME to encourage drivers adopting this convention. Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.rst b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.rst index c6c1e9fa9f73..800dcd7586f2 100644 --- a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.rst +++ b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.rst @@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ the fields returned in the ident struct are: the options field can have the following bits set, and describes what kind of information that the GET_STATUS and GET_BOOT_STATUS ioctls can -return. [FIXME -- Is this correct?] +return. ================ ========================= WDIOF_OVERHEAT Reset due to CPU overheat -- 2.27.0