On 06/05/2015 06:46 PM, Jean-Baptiste Theou wrote:
Add registration deferral mechanism capability information Signed-off-by: Jean-Baptiste Theou <jtheou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt index a0438f3..11c988b 100644 --- a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt +++ b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt @@ -36,6 +36,10 @@ The watchdog_unregister_device routine deregisters a registered watchdog timer device. The parameter of this routine is the pointer to the registered watchdog_device structure. +The watchdog subsystem contain an registration deferral mechanism,
contains, or maybe better includes.
+which allow you to register an watchdog as early as you wish during
allows
+the boot process, in the situation of a built-in module.
Drop part after the , as irrelevant. Please merge this patch into the first patch; no need to keep it separate. Thanks, Guenter
+ The watchdog device structure looks like this: struct watchdog_device {
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