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SubjectRe: [PATCH] [Watchdog][Trivial] Added comments to explain watchdog_disabled variable

* anish singh <anish198519851985@gmail.com> wrote:

> Is the below patch picked up?
>
> On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 9:31 PM, anish kumar <anish198519851985@gmail.com> wrote:
> > From: anish kumar <anish198519851985@gmail.com>
> >
> > This watchdog_disabled flag is bit of cryptic.Howerver it's usefullnes is multifold.
> > Uses are:
> > 1. Check if smpboot_register_percpu_thread function passed.
> > 2. Makes sure that user enables and disables the watchdog in sequence
> > i.e. enable watchdog->disable watchdog->enable watchdog
> > Unlike enable watchdog->enable watchdog which is wrong.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: anish kumar <anish198519851985@gmail.com>
> > ---
> > kernel/watchdog.c | 5 +++++
> > 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c
> > index 75a2ab3..87a19aa 100644
> > --- a/kernel/watchdog.c
> > +++ b/kernel/watchdog.c
> > @@ -518,6 +518,11 @@ int proc_dowatchdog(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
> > return ret;
> >
> > set_sample_period();
> > + /*
> > + * We shouldn't enable watchdog threads if it is
> > + * disabled.This is done by watchdog_disabled
> > + * variable check in watchdog_*_all_cpus function.

It has two grammatic and a stylistic error in it, plus misses
the convention that function names are mentioned with a '()'.

Thanks,

Ingo


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