mei_wdt_ping(9)

🌸 mei_wdt_ping(9) 🌸

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for mei_wdt_ping(9) — manual name folded in near the top, cute and convenient 🎀 This one's short and sweet, but we're still giving it main character energy. 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

mei_wdt_ping — send wd start/ping command. That's the function's whole name-and-job situation, periodt. 🐶✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int mei_wdt_ping (struct mei_wdt *wdt );

Exactly that signature, no cap, no edits. 👑

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• wdt — mei watchdog device. That's the one and only argument, bestie, and it's giving "hand me the watchdog device" vibes. 🐕💖

💅 RETURN 💅

• 0 on success — iconic, it worked. ✅
• negative errno code on failure — not iconic, but that's literally what it returns when things go wrong. 😭

Bestie, the page is clear: 0 means success, negative errno code means failure. We're not adding extra lore. 🫡

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Kernel file ./drivers/watchdog/mei_wdt.c, plus all the see-also besties:

• enum mei_wdt_state(9)
• struct mei_wdt(9)
• struct mei_mc_hdr(9)
• struct mei_wdt_start_request(9)
• struct mei_wdt_start_response(9)
• struct mei_wdt_stop_request(9)
• mei_wdt_stop(9)
• mei_wdt_ops_start(9)
• mei_wdt_ops_stop(9)
• mei_wdt_ops_ping(9)
• mei_wdt_ops_set_timeout(9)
• __mei_wdt_is_registered(9)
• mei_wdt_unregister(9)
• mei_wdt_register(9)
• mei_wdt_rx(9)
• mei_wdt_notif(9)

okay that's the whole page, bestie — source/version is ./drivers/watchdog, dated October 2026, and this was mei_wdt_ping(9). mwah 💋✨