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

[Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>]

On Wed, 28 Sep 2016, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

> 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@linux.intel.com>
> > > Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/mfd/lpc_ich.c | 4 ++++
> > >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> > 
> > Applied, thanks.
> 
> Well, I applied this too.

How can you apply this without an MFD Ack?

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

Yes, I just found that out myself. :)

Well I only have 4 lines of changes in drivers/mfd/lpc_ich.c, so I
guess it'll be okay to apply this without the fear of conflicts.

Do that end, please apply my:

Acked-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
  
> > > 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
> 

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