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From: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
To: "Valentin Vidić" <vvidic@valentin-vidic.from.hr>
Cc: linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: iTCO_wdt on Intel NUC
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 09:21:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190722162152.GB8122@roeck-us.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190722161026.3bzxwibivomuysqf@valentin-vidic.from.hr>

On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 06:10:26PM +0200, Valentin Vidić wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 08:45:50AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > Weird. Is iTCO_wdt instantiated twice ?
> 
> I don't think so. I blacklisted iTCO_wdt module and rebooted but
> the iTCO_wdt line in /proc/iomem still appears although the module
> was not loaded.
> 
> I suspect that it might have to do with one of these modules?
> 
> drivers/platform/x86/intel_pmc_ipc.c:#define TCO_DEVICE_NAME                    "iTCO_wdt"
> drivers/mfd/lpc_ich.c:  .name = "iTCO_wdt",
> drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.c:  pdev = platform_device_register_resndata(&pci_dev->dev, "iTCO_wdt", -1,
> 

Correct.

I suspect that the driver may be instantiated from two locations
on your system. On top of that, there is also wdat_wdt, which
instantiates a watchdog device through ACPI. Overall there are lots
of areas where things can go wrong with this driver.

Guenter

  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-22 16:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-21 20:30 iTCO_wdt on Intel NUC Valentin Vidić
2019-07-22  0:05 ` Guenter Roeck
2019-07-22  4:55   ` Valentin Vidić
2019-07-22 15:45     ` Guenter Roeck
2019-07-22 16:10       ` Valentin Vidić
2019-07-22 16:21         ` Guenter Roeck [this message]
2019-07-22 17:41           ` Valentin Vidić
2019-07-22 17:52             ` Guenter Roeck
2019-07-22 17:56               ` Valentin Vidić
2019-07-22 18:03                 ` Guenter Roeck
2019-07-22 18:12                   ` Valentin Vidić
2019-07-24  9:43   ` Guenter Roeck
2019-07-24 10:00     ` Valentin Vidić
2019-07-24 10:18       ` Guenter Roeck

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