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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.c index 5ef9b733d153..26298af73232 100644 --- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.c +++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.c @@ -1486,7 +1486,9 @@ static int i801_probe(struct pci_dev *dev, const struct pci_device_id *id) priv->features |= FEATURE_IRQ; priv->features |= FEATURE_SMBUS_PEC; priv->features |= FEATURE_BLOCK_BUFFER; - priv->features |= FEATURE_TCO; + /* If we have ACPI based watchdog use that instead */ + if (!acpi_has_watchdog()) + priv->features |= FEATURE_TCO; priv->features |= FEATURE_HOST_NOTIFY; break; -- 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