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It can be useful to delay setting the nowayout feature for a watchdog device. Moreover, not every driver (notably gpio_wdt) implements a nowayout module parameter/otherwise respects CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT, and modifying those drivers carries a risk of causing a regression for someone who has two watchdog devices, sets CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT and somehow relies on the gpio_wdt driver being ignorant of that (i.e., allowing one to gracefully close a gpio_wdt but not the other watchdog in the system). So instead, simply make the nowayout sysfs file writable. Obviously, setting nowayout is a one-way street. Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191105205118.11359-1-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.