Re: [PATCH] watchdog: clarify that stop() is optional

[Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>]

On 4/2/20 8:15 PM, Bumsik Kim wrote:
> The commit d0684c8a9354 ("watchdog: Make stop function optional")
> made stop function not mandatory, but the comments
> and the doc weren't reflected. Fix it to clarify.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bumsik Kim <k.bumsik@gmail.com>

Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>

> ---
>  Documentation/watchdog/convert_drivers_to_kernel_api.rst | 2 +-
>  Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.rst           | 2 +-
>  include/linux/watchdog.h                                 | 4 ++--
>  3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/convert_drivers_to_kernel_api.rst b/Documentation/watchdog/convert_drivers_to_kernel_api.rst
> index dd934cc08e40..51b999b5551a 100644
> --- a/Documentation/watchdog/convert_drivers_to_kernel_api.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/watchdog/convert_drivers_to_kernel_api.rst
> @@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ Add the watchdog operations
>  ---------------------------
>  
>  All possible callbacks are defined in 'struct watchdog_ops'. You can find it
> -explained in 'watchdog-kernel-api.txt' in this directory. start(), stop() and
> +explained in 'watchdog-kernel-api.txt' in this directory. start() and
>  owner must be set, the rest are optional. You will easily find corresponding
>  functions in the old driver. Note that you will now get a pointer to the
>  watchdog_device as a parameter to these functions, so you probably have to
> diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.rst b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.rst
> index 864edbe932c1..068a55ee0d4a 100644
> --- a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.rst
> @@ -123,8 +123,8 @@ The list of watchdog operations is defined as::
>  	struct module *owner;
>  	/* mandatory operations */
>  	int (*start)(struct watchdog_device *);
> -	int (*stop)(struct watchdog_device *);
>  	/* optional operations */
> +	int (*stop)(struct watchdog_device *);
>  	int (*ping)(struct watchdog_device *);
>  	unsigned int (*status)(struct watchdog_device *);
>  	int (*set_timeout)(struct watchdog_device *, unsigned int);
> diff --git a/include/linux/watchdog.h b/include/linux/watchdog.h
> index 417d9f37077a..1464ce6ffa31 100644
> --- a/include/linux/watchdog.h
> +++ b/include/linux/watchdog.h
> @@ -37,15 +37,15 @@ struct watchdog_governor;
>   *
>   * The watchdog_ops structure contains a list of low-level operations
>   * that control a watchdog device. It also contains the module that owns
> - * these operations. The start and stop function are mandatory, all other
> + * these operations. The start function is mandatory, all other
>   * functions are optional.
>   */
>  struct watchdog_ops {
>  	struct module *owner;
>  	/* mandatory operations */
>  	int (*start)(struct watchdog_device *);
> -	int (*stop)(struct watchdog_device *);
>  	/* optional operations */
> +	int (*stop)(struct watchdog_device *);
>  	int (*ping)(struct watchdog_device *);
>  	unsigned int (*status)(struct watchdog_device *);
>  	int (*set_timeout)(struct watchdog_device *, unsigned int);
>