From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lee Jones Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] mfd: lpc_ich: Do not create iTCO watchdog when WDAT table exists Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 02:09:41 +0100 Message-ID: <20160928010941.GR21388@dell> References: <20160920123054.195021-1-mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com> <20160920123054.195021-3-mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com> <20160927194114.GL21388@dell> <1611175.DW5CysW0GN@vostro.rjw.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from mail-pa0-f46.google.com ([209.85.220.46]:32877 "EHLO mail-pa0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932567AbcI1BHh (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Sep 2016 21:07:37 -0400 Received: by mail-pa0-f46.google.com with SMTP id cd13so7533099pac.0 for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2016 18:07:37 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1611175.DW5CysW0GN@vostro.rjw.lan> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Mika Westerberg , Wim Van Sebroeck , Guenter Roeck , Len Brown , Jean Delvare , Wolfram Sang , Peter Tyser , Zha Qipeng , Darren Hart , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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 > > > Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck > > > --- > > > 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 > > > 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 > -- Lee Jones Linaro STMicroelectronics Landing Team Lead Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog