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-rw-r--r--Documentation/watchdog/convert_drivers_to_kernel_api.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.rst2
-rw-r--r--include/linux/watchdog.h4
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);