dpm_watchdog_clear(9)

💅 dpm_watchdog_clear(9) — like, the Kernel API Manual page, bestie

okay so first things first: this whole page lives in the Kernel API Manual, and the star of the show is dpm_watchdog_clear(9). it's short, it's sweet, it's giving "one job and it does it" energy. let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

dpm_watchdog_clear — Disable suspend/resume watchdog. literally that's it, that's the whole vibe 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void dpm_watchdog_clear (struct dpm_watchdog *wd );

no cap, that's the entire signature. take it in, bestie ✨

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• wd — the Watchdog to disable. yeah. that's the one. hand it over and it gets turned off 🙈

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

okay so this is where it gets iconic — the whole friend group shows up. also worth noting: there's a Kernel file involved here, ./drivers/base/power/main.c, and then everybody else:

• pm_hibernate_is_recovering(9)
• device_pm_sleep_init(9)
• device_pm_lock(9)
• device_pm_unlock(9)
• device_pm_add(9)
• device_pm_remove(9)
• device_pm_move_before(9)
• device_pm_move_after(9)
• device_pm_move_last(9)
• dpm_wait(9)
• pm_op(9)
• pm_late_early_op(9)
• pm_noirq_op(9)
• dpm_watchdog_handler(9)
• dpm_watchdog_set(9)
• dev_pm_skip_resume(9)
• device_resume_noirq(9)
• dpm_resume_noirq(9)
• device_resume_early(9)
• dpm_resume_early(9)
• dpm_resume_start(9)
• device_resume(9)
• dpm_resume(9)
• device_complete(9)
• dpm_complete(9)
• dpm_resume_end(9)
• resume_event(9)
• device_suspend_noirq(9)
• dpm_suspend_noirq(9)
• device_suspend_late(9)
• dpm_suspend_late(9)
• dpm_suspend_end(9)
• legacy_suspend(9)
• device_suspend(9)
• dpm_suspend(9)
• device_prepare(9)
• dpm_prepare(9)
• dpm_suspend_start(9)
• device_pm_wait_for_dev(9)
• dpm_for_each_dev(9)

like I said. the whole friend group. go say hi, iykyk 👑

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ngl bestie, dpm_watchdog_clear is the "you're done, go home" of the power-management watchdogs — it disables the suspend/resume watchdog and that's the entire flex. no extra lore on this page, so don't go inventing any 😭

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mwah 💜 that's the page! brought to you from the source spot ./drivers/base/power, stamped October 2026, and yeah — that's the version and the date, all wrapped up in a cute little sign-off. slay. periodt. 🎀✨