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 an ACPI WDAT table. Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/platform/x86/intel_pmc_ipc.c | 12 ++++++++---- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/intel_pmc_ipc.c b/drivers/platform/x86/intel_pmc_ipc.c index b86e1bcaa055..a511d518206b 100644 --- a/drivers/platform/x86/intel_pmc_ipc.c +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/intel_pmc_ipc.c @@ -651,11 +651,15 @@ static int ipc_create_pmc_devices(void) { int ret; - ret = ipc_create_tco_device(); - if (ret) { - dev_err(ipcdev.dev, "Failed to add tco platform device\n"); - return ret; + /* If we have ACPI based watchdog use that instead */ + if (!acpi_has_watchdog()) { + ret = ipc_create_tco_device(); + if (ret) { + dev_err(ipcdev.dev, "Failed to add tco platform device\n"); + return ret; + } } + ret = ipc_create_punit_device(); if (ret) { dev_err(ipcdev.dev, "Failed to add punit platform device\n"); -- 2.9.3 -- 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