linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] watchdog-kernel-api: Add registration deferral mechanism

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Date:	Fri, 05 Jun 2015 21:26:29 -0700
From:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:	Jean-Baptiste Theou <jtheou@...neo-embedded.us>,
	Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@...ana.be>
CC:	linux-watchdog@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] watchdog-kernel-api: Add registration deferral
 mechanism

On 06/05/2015 06:46 PM, Jean-Baptiste Theou wrote:
> Add registration deferral mechanism capability information
>
> Signed-off-by: Jean-Baptiste Theou <jtheou@...neo-embedded.us>
> ---
>   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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