watchdog: documentation: describe nowayout in coversion-guide

nowayout is also handled by the watchdog core. Describe how this needs
to be addressed in the conversion guide.

Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
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Wolfram Sang 2011-12-02 00:43:11 +01:00 committed by Wim Van Sebroeck
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@ -163,6 +163,25 @@ Here is a simple example for a watchdog device:
+};
Handle the 'nowayout' feature
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A few drivers use nowayout statically, i.e. there is no module parameter for it
and only CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT determines if the feature is going to be
used. This needs to be converted by initializing the status variable of the
watchdog_device like this:
.status = WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT_INIT_STATUS,
Most drivers, however, also allow runtime configuration of nowayout, usually
by adding a module parameter. The conversion for this would be something like:
watchdog_set_nowayout(&s3c2410_wdd, nowayout);
The module parameter itself needs to stay, everything else related to nowayout
can go, though. This will likely be some code in open(), close() or write().
Register the watchdog device
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