On Wed, Feb 05, 2020 at 04:05:29PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi all, Hi, > Is there a way to prevent the ACPI WDAT watchdog interface from being > used and force the use of a native watchdog driver instead? > > I have a customer who reports a regression on kernel upgrade. Old > kernel (v4.4) uses iTCO_wdt and watchdog works, new kernel (v4.12) uses > wdat_wdt and watchdog doesn't work (instant reboot when opening the > device). While I'm going to look for fixes to backport, I think it > would be pretty convenient to have a way to just revert to the working > driver until the new driver is fixed somehow. But I can't see any way > to do that at the moment, short of disabling ACPI completely, which is > definitely too extreme to be considered. > > Am I missing something? 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.
