cdns_wdt_settimeout(9)

💖 cdns_wdt_settimeout 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ — this lil page is all about cdns_wdt_settimeout, and honestly? it's giving "quietly important" energy. it sets a new timeout value for the watchdog device. no cap. 🐕🦋

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int cdns_wdt_settimeout (struct watchdog_device *wdd , unsigned int
new_time );

like, it takes a pointer to a watchdog device and an unsigned int, and hands you back an int. simple. iconic. 💅

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• wdd — the watchdog device in question. yes, the actual struct watchdog_device *. she's the main character here 👑
• new_time — the brand-new timeout value that needs to be set. unsigned int, so keep it positive, bestie 🙈

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

it returns 0 on success. that's it — 0 means we ate and left no crumbs 🔥

ngl, 0 is the only return value documented here, so don't go expecting the full saga of error codes. it's 0 on success, periodt 💀

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so what does this actually do? it updates the watchdog_device timeout with the new value — and that value is the one that gets used when cdns_wdt_start is called. so like, this is the setup step; the starting happens later. the way that just makes sense 🧚

lowkey important detail: this function updates the timeout field, it doesn't start anything by itself. cdns_wdt_start is the one who does the starting, and she'll be using whatever new_time you set here. iykyk 💜

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• Kernel file ./drivers/watchdog/cadence_wdt.c
• struct cdns_wdt(9)
• cdns_wdt_stop(9)
• cdns_wdt_reload(9)
• cdns_wdt_start(9)
• cdns_wdt_irq_handler(9)
• cdns_wdt_probe(9)
• cdns_wdt_suspend(9)
• cdns_wdt_resume(9)

like, go read the whole friend group, they're all linked 💖

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that's the whole page, bestie — short, sweet, and fully documented 🌈 this one lives under ./drivers/watchdog and the date on it is October 2026, so yeah, it's got that fresh timestamp energy ⭐ mwah, go set some timeouts 💅🎀