From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
To: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>,
Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>,
linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org, Tom Abraham <tabraham@suse.com>
Subject: Re: Forcing non-ACPI watchdog driver
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2020 17:00:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJZ5v0hOyVNt0up7kErOnFSeCu0yu=MhJp-Yqo4+M49W0bgZbw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJZ5v0i5+DaFM22jW=dS66JHK5=ydvMf4dBuJTMvGoNSZLOL3Q@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 4:50 PM Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 3:56 PM Mika Westerberg
> <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-06 16:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-05 15:05 Forcing non-ACPI watchdog driver Jean Delvare
2020-02-05 15:24 ` Mika Westerberg
2020-02-05 16:30 ` Guenter Roeck
2020-02-05 16:38 ` Mika Westerberg
2020-02-06 14:45 ` Jean Delvare
2020-02-06 14:56 ` Mika Westerberg
2020-02-06 15:50 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-02-06 16:00 ` Rafael J. Wysocki [this message]
2020-02-06 19:14 ` Mika Westerberg
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