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Re: [PATCH 1/2] watchdog: wdrtas: Fix kernel-doc parameter name for wdrtas_reboot()

From: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Date: 2026-08-06 21:32:28
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On Thu, Jul 30, 2026 at 06:06:16AM +0000, Babanpreet Singh wrote:
scripts/kernel-doc -none reports:

  Warning: drivers/watchdog/wdrtas.c:460 function parameter 'this' not
  described in 'wdrtas_reboot'
  Warning: drivers/watchdog/wdrtas.c:460 Excess function parameter 'nb'
  description in 'wdrtas_reboot'

wdrtas_reboot() names its notifier block argument 'this', but the
kernel-doc comment documents a parameter named 'nb'.

Update the kernel-doc comment to document the 'this' parameter.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5
Signed-off-by: Babanpreet Singh <redacted>
This is a 20+ years old driver which doesn't use the watchdog subsystem.
I am not going to apply any patches to it unless the author shows that
it is a real problem observed on real hardware, and then I am likely
going to ask for a conversion to the watchdog subsystem unlesss it is
a critical aproblem and not just something AI came up with as a possible
issue.

Guenter
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---
 drivers/watchdog/wdrtas.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/wdrtas.c b/drivers/watchdog/wdrtas.c
index d4fe0bc822116..6c25171de224e 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/wdrtas.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/wdrtas.c
@@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ static int wdrtas_temp_close(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 
 /**
  * wdrtas_reboot - reboot notifier function
- * @nb: notifier block structure
+ * @this: notifier block structure
  * @code: reboot code
  * @ptr: unused
  *
  
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