.\" This manpage has been automatically generated by docbook2man .\" from a DocBook document. This tool can be found at: .\" .\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches, .\" etc. to Steve Cheng . .TH "WDT_RELEASE" "9" "09 October 2005" "" "" .SH NAME wdt_release \- .SH SYNOPSIS "SYNOPSIS" .sp \fB .sp int wdt_release (struct inode * \fIinode\fB, struct file * \fIfile\fB); \fR .SH "ARGUMENTS" .TP \fB\fIinode\fB\fR inode to board .TP \fB\fIfile\fB\fR file handle to board .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP 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.