On 01/15/2015 05:27 AM, Muller, Francois-nicolas wrote:
TCO driver is anyway auto-loaded by mfd driver lpc_ich as a sub-function of it. The aim of my patch is only to add warning interrupt support in TCO driver. For this it need the GPE number which is exposed by Bios in acpi tables. So the patch registers also the TCO driver as an acpi driver to be able to retrieve this value. The acpi code part is only required by the interrupt handling support, not needed for the loading of the driver itself (already done by lpc_ich). In this context I don't see the point of dissociating the driver part from the loading, unless the loading would need to be reverted later.
Ok, makes sense. Regarding the patch itself, I'll leave it up to Wim to decide what to do. Personally I dislike the notion of panicing as response to a watchdog timeout. Guenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
