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watchdog: add devm_watchdog_register_device() to watchdog-kernel-api

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devm_watchdog_register_device() is not documented. Add it to the current
kernel API documentation.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
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Randy Dunlap 2026-05-29 14:20:20 -07:00 committed by Guenter Roeck
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@ -42,6 +42,14 @@ The watchdog subsystem includes an registration deferral mechanism,
which allows you to register an watchdog as early as you wish during
the boot process.
There is also a resource-managed watchdog_register_device(),
devm_watchdog_register_device(). If you use this to register a watchdog
device, watchdog_unregister_device() is called automatically on driver
detach::
int devm_watchdog_register_device(struct device *dev,
struct watchdog_device *wdd);
The watchdog device structure looks like this::
struct watchdog_device {