On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 09:17:42PM +0200, Ahmad Fatoum wrote: > 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> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > 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
