[PATCH v1 1/8] docs: watchdog: codify ident.options as superset of possible status flags

From: Ahmad Fatoum
Date: Thu Jun 11 2020 - 15:18:10 EST


The FIXME comment has been in-tree since the very first git commit.
The described behavior has been since relied on by some userspace, e.g.
the util-linux wdctl command and has been ignored by some kernelspace,
like the f71808e_wdt driver.

The functionality is useful to have to be able to differentiate between a
driver that doesn't support WDIOF_CARDRESET and one that does, but hasn't
had a watchdog reset, thus drop the FIXME to encourage drivers adopting
this convention.

Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.rst | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.rst b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.rst
index c6c1e9fa9f73..800dcd7586f2 100644
--- a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.rst
+++ b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.rst
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ the fields returned in the ident struct are:

the options field can have the following bits set, and describes what
kind of information that the GET_STATUS and GET_BOOT_STATUS ioctls can
-return. [FIXME -- Is this correct?]
+return.

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