Re: Forcing non-ACPI watchdog driver

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On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 4:50 PM Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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.

So queued up now (with very minor changes in the subject and
changelog), but I will rebase it on top of -rc1 when it is out.



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