Re: Forcing non-ACPI watchdog driver

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On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 3:56 PM Mika Westerberg
<mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 03:45:32PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > Hi Mika,
> >
> > On Wed, 5 Feb 2020 18:38:31 +0200, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 05, 2020 at 08:30:48AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Feb 05, 2020 at 05:24:35PM +0200, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> > > > > You should be able to revert to iTCO_wdt by simply disabling
> > > > > CONFIG_WDAT_WDT from .config. Then acpi_has_watchdog() returns false
> > > > > which means that iTCO_wdt is used instead.
> > > >
> > > > That may not be possible in a generic distribution.
> > >
> > > Right, they would need to build their own kernel. Currently there is no
> > > way to do that without changing .config.
> >
> > OK, that's pretty much what I was compl^Wworried about ;-) Would you
> > consider applying something like the following patch?
>
> Yes, I think the patch makes sense.
>
> Rafael, I guess you will take this since it is touching ACPI?

Yes, I will.

> > From: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@xxxxxxx>
> > Subject: ACPI / watchdog: Allow disabling WDAT at boot
> >
> > In case the WDAT interface is broken, give the user the option to
> > ignore it to let a native driver bind to the watchdog device instead.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@xxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Acked-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!



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