Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Sep 2016 19:48:46 +0200 | From | Wolfram Sang <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] i2c: i801: Do not create iTCO watchdog when WDAT table exists |
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On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 03:30:53PM +0300, 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>
BTW I assume this patch does not go via the i2c tree. Please tell me if you think otherwise.
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