wdt_stop(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 wdt_stop — from the Kernel API Manual, bestie 🐶

Okay so real talk, this one's a shortie but she's important. Welcome to wdt_stop(9), straight out of the Kernel API Manual, and yes we're gonna read it together because that's what besties do 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

wdt_stop —

That's it. That's the whole name line. The dash is just... sitting there. No one-line summary followed it. Not me staring at the trailing hyphen like 👁️👄👁️ — it's giving mystery, it's giving "read the DESCRIPTION, babe." No cap, that's genuinely all the original gives us here 💀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int wdt_stop (void );

Copy it exactly like that, spaces and all — the space after wdt_stop and the space before the closing paren are part of the vibe (and part of the source). Don't be out here "fixing" it, I'm begging 🙏

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • void — no arguments. Zero. None. Nada. She takes nothing and she gives you an int back. Low-maintenance icon behavior, honestly 👑

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Stop the watchdog driver.

That's the whole thing. One sentence. Short and iconic. Like, the entire description is "Stop the watchdog driver." — and honestly? She ate. No filler, no fluff, just: stop it. 🛑

So when you call wdt_stop, you are stopping the watchdog driver. That's the assignment. That's the whole assignment. Periodt 💅

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Kernel file ./drivers/watchdog/wdt.c — and here's the whole fam, the entire watchdog group chat, in the exact order they're listed:

Like, go read wdt_start(9) next if you wanna turn the thing back on, obviously — but that's between you and the manpage, iykyk 🧚

Heads up bestie: the original page literally doesn't say anything else. No return value section, no errors, no notes, no bugs listed, no author line. So if you were waiting for more tea, this cup is empty. I'm not gonna invent lore for you 🙈

And that's the whole page!! Written under ./drivers/watchdog, dated October 2026, and she's filed as wdt_stop(9) — go stop that watchdog, you absolute main character 🌈⭐💜

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