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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/watchdog')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt index 958ff3d48be..7e8ae83e984 100644 --- a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt +++ b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ daemon and it crashes the system will not reboot. Because of this, some of the drivers support the configuration option "Disable watchdog shutdown on close", CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT. If it is set to Y when compiling the kernel, there is no way of disabling the watchdog once -it has been started. So, if the watchdog dameon crashes, the system +it has been started. So, if the watchdog daemon crashes, the system will reboot after the timeout has passed. Some other drivers will not disable the watchdog, unless a specific @@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ Note that not all devices support these two calls, and some only support the GETBOOTSTATUS call. Some drivers can measure the temperature using the GETTEMP ioctl. The -returned value is the temperature in degrees farenheit. +returned value is the temperature in degrees fahrenheit. int temperature; ioctl(fd, WDIOC_GETTEMP, &temperature); @@ -258,13 +258,13 @@ booke_wdt.c -- PowerPC BookE Watchdog Timer Timeout default varies according to frequency, supports SETTIMEOUT - Watchdog can not be turned off, CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT + Watchdog cannot be turned off, CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT does not make sense GETSUPPORT returns the watchdog_info struct, and GETSTATUS returns the supported options. GETBOOTSTATUS returns a 1 if the last reset was caused by the - watchdog and a 0 otherwise. This watchdog can not be + watchdog and a 0 otherwise. This watchdog cannot be disabled once it has been started. The wdt_period kernel parameter selects which bit of the time base changing from 0->1 will trigger the watchdog exception. Changing |