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diff --git a/sys-utils/wdctl.8 b/sys-utils/wdctl.8 index 7edf80866..efd8b5917 100644 --- a/sys-utils/wdctl.8 +++ b/sys-utils/wdctl.8 @@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ Show hardware watchdog status. The default device is If more than one device is specified then the output is separated by one blank line. .PP +If the device is already used or user has no permissions to read from the device than +.B wdctl +reads data from sysfs. In this case information about supported features (flags) might be missing. +.PP Note that the number of supported watchdog features is hardware specific. .SH OPTIONS .TP |