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Authored by jhibbits on Sep 10 2025, 8:55 PM.
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Summary

Update man page to account for chnage in timeout representation
(sbintime_t vs power-of-2 nanoseconds), and addition of new
WDIOC_CONTROL ioctl.

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share/man/man4/watchdog.4
45–46

This reads kinda awkwardly, because it seems like fido is supporting several ioctls, so were going to show a set of them, but then there's only WDIOCPATPAT.

Address feedback on ioctl list.

ziaee added inline comments.
share/man/man4/watchdog.4
104–105

trivial nit, alignment

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Sep 24 2025, 9:00 PM
This revision was automatically updated to reflect the committed changes.