Re: [WATCHDOG] iTCO_wdt.c - ICH9 reboot issue - testing wanted

[Rui Santos <rsantos@grupopie.com>]

Wim Van Sebroeck wrote:
> Hi Rui,
>   

Hi Wim,

>   
>> With your patch, the Intel DG35EC board will not allow my distribution
>> reboot or halt the machine. In order to circumvent that problem, I've
>> made a few addition to your previous patch witch allows the restore of
>> the changed Bit 0 to it's previous value if the module is unloaded.
>> My only doubt is if it should be done every time the gbl_smi_en is zero,
>> or in conjunction with nowayout when the value also equals zero. This
>> patch has what I described and a commented gbl_smi_en only.
>>     
>
> Forget the previous patch. I don't like having this hack in the main iTCO_wdt code.
> So I added it to the iTCO_vendor_support code with the necessary warnings.
> Can you test this (please note that the iTCO_vendor_support module needs to be
> loaded with the vendorsupport=911 module parameter).
>   

It's working like a charm. Also, the Bit 0 is changed to its original
value, so all reboots work.
I've tested on 2.6.30 and 2.6.27 ( with a few mods... ).

> Thanks in advance,
>   

Thank you,

> Wim.
>   

Rui