Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] mfd: lpc_ich: Do not create iTCO watchdog when WDAT table exists

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Tue Sep 27 2016 - 18:01:38 EST


On Tuesday, September 27, 2016 08:41:14 PM Lee Jones wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Sep 2016, Mika Westerberg wrote:
>
> > ACPI WDAT table is the preferred way to use hardware watchdog over the
> > native iTCO_wdt. Windows only uses this table for its hardware watchdog
> > implementation so we should be relatively safe to trust it has been
> > validated by OEMs
> >
> > Prevent iTCO watchdog creation if we detect that there is ACPI WDAT table.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/mfd/lpc_ich.c | 4 ++++
> > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> Applied, thanks.

Well, I applied this too.

And it depends on the [1/4], doesn't it?

>
> > diff --git a/drivers/mfd/lpc_ich.c b/drivers/mfd/lpc_ich.c
> > index bd3aa4578346..c8dee47b45d9 100644
> > --- a/drivers/mfd/lpc_ich.c
> > +++ b/drivers/mfd/lpc_ich.c
> > @@ -984,6 +984,10 @@ static int lpc_ich_init_wdt(struct pci_dev *dev)
> > int ret;
> > struct resource *res;
> >
> > + /* If we have ACPI based watchdog use that instead */
> > + if (acpi_has_watchdog())
> > + return -ENODEV;
> > +
> > /* Setup power management base register */
> > pci_read_config_dword(dev, priv->abase, &base_addr_cfg);
> > base_addr = base_addr_cfg & 0x0000ff80;
>
>

Thanks,
Rafael