From: Philipp Hahn <p.hahn@avm.de>
To: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>,
Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Philipp Hahn <phahn-oss@avm.de>,
linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 1/5] watchdog: Change suffix .txt to .rst in references
Date: Tue, 5 May 2026 11:26:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bb1aa3129d5e52bc4c8e1ec3340b88f80f726fef.1777972790.git.phahn-oss@avm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1777972790.git.phahn-oss@avm.de>
From: Philipp Hahn <phahn-oss@avm.de>
Fix link to documentation, which has already been converted to reST.
Also remove apostrophes which are no longer needed.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Hahn <phahn-oss@avm.de>
---
Documentation/watchdog/convert_drivers_to_kernel_api.rst | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/convert_drivers_to_kernel_api.rst b/Documentation/watchdog/convert_drivers_to_kernel_api.rst
index e83609a5d0071..9eddb962f8e4c 100644
--- a/Documentation/watchdog/convert_drivers_to_kernel_api.rst
+++ b/Documentation/watchdog/convert_drivers_to_kernel_api.rst
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ 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() and
+explained in watchdog-kernel-api.rst 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
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ Add the watchdog device
Now we need to create a 'struct watchdog_device' and populate it with the
necessary information for the framework. The struct is also explained in detail
-in 'watchdog-kernel-api.txt' in this directory. We pass it the mandatory
+in watchdog-kernel-api.rst in this directory. We pass it the mandatory
watchdog_info struct and the newly created watchdog_ops. Often, old drivers
have their own record-keeping for things like bootstatus and timeout using
static variables. Those have to be converted to use the members in
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-05 9:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-05 9:26 [PATCH v3 0/5] Cleanup Linux Watchdog documentation Philipp Hahn
2026-05-05 9:26 ` Philipp Hahn [this message]
2026-05-05 13:08 ` [PATCH v3 1/5] watchdog: Change suffix .txt to .rst in references Guenter Roeck
2026-05-05 9:26 ` [PATCH v3 2/5] watchdog: Move `struct` before name Philipp Hahn
2026-05-05 13:09 ` Guenter Roeck
2026-05-05 9:26 ` [PATCH v3 3/5] watchdog: Replace intermixed tab/space indent Philipp Hahn
2026-05-05 9:26 ` [PATCH v3 4/5] watchdog: Separate kind of documentation Philipp Hahn
2026-05-05 13:11 ` Guenter Roeck
2026-05-05 9:26 ` [PATCH v3 5/5] watchdog: Prefix WDT with ICS for clarity Philipp Hahn
2026-05-05 13:12 ` Guenter Roeck
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