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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+.. _GPIO_GET_LINEINFO_WATCH_IOCTL:
+
+*****************************
+GPIO_GET_LINEINFO_WATCH_IOCTL
+*****************************
+
+.. warning::
+    This ioctl is part of chardev_v1.rst and is obsoleted by
+    gpio-v2-get-lineinfo-watch-ioctl.rst.
+
+Name
+====
+
+GPIO_GET_LINEINFO_WATCH_IOCTL - Enable watching a line for changes to its
+request state and configuration information.
+
+Synopsis
+========
+
+.. c:macro:: GPIO_GET_LINEINFO_WATCH_IOCTL
+
+``int ioctl(int chip_fd, GPIO_GET_LINEINFO_WATCH_IOCTL, struct gpioline_info *info)``
+
+Arguments
+=========
+
+``chip_fd``
+    The file descriptor of the GPIO character device returned by `open()`.
+
+``info``
+    The :c:type:`line_info<gpioline_info>` struct to be populated, with
+    the ``offset`` set to indicate the line to watch
+
+Description
+===========
+
+Enable watching a line for changes to its request state and configuration
+information. Changes to line info include a line being requested, released
+or reconfigured.
+
+.. note::
+    Watching line info is not generally required, and would typically only be
+    used by a system monitoring component.
+
+    The line info does NOT include the line value.
+
+    The line must be requested using gpio-get-linehandle-ioctl.rst or
+    gpio-get-lineevent-ioctl.rst to access its value, and the line event can
+    monitor a line for events using gpio-lineevent-data-read.rst.
+
+By default all lines are unwatched when the GPIO chip is opened.
+
+Multiple lines may be watched simultaneously by adding a watch for each.
+
+Once a watch is set, any changes to line info will generate events which can be
+read from the ``chip_fd`` as described in
+gpio-lineinfo-changed-read.rst.
+
+Adding a watch to a line that is already watched is an error (**EBUSY**).
+
+Watches are specific to the ``chip_fd`` and are independent of watches
+on the same GPIO chip opened with a separate call to `open()`.
+
+First added in 5.7.
+
+Return Value
+============
+
+On success 0 and ``info`` is populated with the current line info.
+
+On error -1 and the ``errno`` variable is set appropriately.
+Common error codes are described in error-codes.rst.