diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile
index fc386b7a01b2..b2210b7af2e5 100644
--- a/Documentation/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/Makefile
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 subdir-y := accounting auxdisplay blackfin \
-	laptops pcmcia watchdog
+	laptops pcmcia
diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/Makefile b/Documentation/watchdog/Makefile
deleted file mode 100644
index 6018f45f2471..000000000000
--- a/Documentation/watchdog/Makefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-subdir-y := src
diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/src/Makefile b/Documentation/watchdog/src/Makefile
deleted file mode 100644
index 47be791827d4..000000000000
--- a/Documentation/watchdog/src/Makefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-# List of programs to build
-hostprogs-y := watchdog-simple
-
-# Tell kbuild to always build the programs
-always := $(hostprogs-y)
diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt
index b3a701f48118..0e62ba33b7fb 100644
--- a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ activates as soon as /dev/watchdog is opened and will reboot unless
 the watchdog is pinged within a certain time, this time is called the
 timeout or margin.  The simplest way to ping the watchdog is to write
 some data to the device.  So a very simple watchdog daemon would look
-like this source file:  see Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-simple.c
+like this source file:  see samples/watchdog/watchdog-simple.c
 
 A more advanced driver could for example check that a HTTP server is
 still responding before doing the write call to ping the watchdog.
diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/wdt.txt b/Documentation/watchdog/wdt.txt
index 061c2e35384f..ed2f0b860869 100644
--- a/Documentation/watchdog/wdt.txt
+++ b/Documentation/watchdog/wdt.txt
@@ -47,4 +47,4 @@ The external event interfaces on the WDT boards are not currently supported.
 Minor numbers are however allocated for it.
 
 
-Example Watchdog Driver:  see Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-simple.c
+Example Watchdog Driver:  see samples/watchdog/watchdog-simple.c
diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/src/.gitignore b/samples/watchdog/.gitignore
similarity index 100%
rename from Documentation/watchdog/src/.gitignore
rename to samples/watchdog/.gitignore
diff --git a/samples/watchdog/Makefile b/samples/watchdog/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..9b53d89b1ccf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/samples/watchdog/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+CC := $(CROSS_COMPILE)gcc
+PROGS := watchdog-simple
+
+all: $(PROGS)
+
+clean:
+	rm -fr $(PROGS)
+
diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-simple.c b/samples/watchdog/watchdog-simple.c
similarity index 100%
rename from Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-simple.c
rename to samples/watchdog/watchdog-simple.c