Re: [PATCH] ACPI / watchdog: Initialize before PNP

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On Thursday, April 19, 2018 10:06:00 PM CEST Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 01:08:37PM +0300, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> > At least on one Dell system the PNP motherboard resources device
> > includes resources used by WDAT table. Since PNP gets initialized before
> > WDAT it results following error and no watchdog:
> > 
> >   platform wdat_wdt: failed to claim resource 3: [io  0x046a-0x046c]
> >   ACPI: watchdog: Device creation failed: -16
> > 
> > Now, the PNP system driver is already accustomed with the situation that
> > it cannot reserve all those motherboard resources because drivers using
> > those might have reserved them already. In addition putting WDAT table
> > resources under motherboard resources device makes sense in general.
> > 
> > Fix this by initializing WDAT right before PNP. This allows WDAT to
> > reserve all its resources and still keeps PNP system driver happy.
> > 
> > Reported-by: Shubhrata.Priyadarsh@xxxxxxxx
> > Reported-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks!

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