mei_wdt_ops_stop(9)

πŸ“¦ version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

πŸ’… mei_wdt_ops_stop(9) πŸ’…

okay so bestie, buckle up β€” this is a page straight out of the Kernel API Manual, and it's about mei_wdt_ops_stop, which is genuinely the "bye girlie" of the watchdog world 🫢


✨ NAME ✨

mei_wdt_ops_stop β€” the wd stop command, coming atcha from the watchdog core πŸ’–

Like, that's it. That's the whole vibe. The watchdog core is calling in and this function is the one that picks up the phone and says "say less, we're stopping" πŸŽ€


🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int mei_wdt_ops_stop (struct watchdog_device *wdd );

literally one function, one argument, returns an int. no cap, that's the whole signature πŸ’…


πŸ¦‹ ARGUMENTS πŸ¦‹

  • wdd β€” the watchdog device πŸ‘‘ this is the watchdog device, bestie. that's the thing you're stopping. she's the main character here.

⭐ RETURN ⭐

  • 0 if success β€” slay, it worked ✨
  • negative errno code for failure β€” 😭 not slay, something went wrong, and the negative errno code tells you what went wrong
fr fr, 0 = good vibes, negative = the errno code is spilling the tea about the failure πŸ’€

πŸ”₯ SEE ALSO πŸ”₯

okay this list is long, so get comfy πŸ“ everything below lives in the Kernel file ./drivers/watchdog/mei_wdt.c:

go read those too, iykyk πŸ’œ


and that's a wrap, bestie! 🧚 this whole page came to you from ./drivers/watchdog, dated October 2026 β€” mwah, love that for us πŸ’– see you in the next man page, periodt πŸ’…

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