wdtpci_release(9)

🎀 wdtpci_release(9) 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to the wdtpci_release(9) page from the Kernel API Manual — this is the release-side tea, and we’re keeping every single crumb of it 🫶✨

✨ NAME ✨

wdtpci_release - that’s the whole name; the dash is there and the description slot is lowkey giving silent treatment 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int wdtpci_release (struct inode *inode , struct file *file );

no cap, that’s the exact signature — spaces, comma, semicolon, all of it 😌

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• inode — inode to board 🛹 (yes, that is the description — “to board” and all, periodt)
• file — file handle to board 🎀 (same energy, different handle)

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so the watchdog has a configurable API. There is a religious dispute between people who want their watchdog to be able to shut down and those who want to be sure if the watchdog manager dies the machine reboots. In the former case we disable the counters, in the latter case you have to open it again very soon.

bestie, the “very soon” is not a suggestion — the latter camp literally needs that reopen to happen very soon 🔥

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./drivers/watchdog/wdt_pci.c plus the whole squad: wdtpci_start(9), wdtpci_stop(9), wdtpci_ping(9), wdtpci_set_heartbeat(9), wdtpci_get_status(9), wdtpci_interrupt(9), wdtpci_write(9), wdtpci_ioctl(9), wdtpci_open(9), wdtpci_temp_read(9), wdtpci_temp_open(9), wdtpci_temp_release(9), wdtpci_notify_sys(9) — iykyk 💅

okay bye bestie 💖 — that’s the wdtpci_release(9) page, source/version: ./drivers/watchdog, date: October 2026.