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i2c: i801: Do not create iTCO watchdog when WDAT table exists
authorMika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Tue, 20 Sep 2016 12:30:53 +0000 (15:30 +0300)
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Wed, 28 Sep 2016 21:08:08 +0000 (23:08 +0200)
commitd98aa0773aed519b4081c0e816efab896e535406
treebc6f873c56139ad05be12314fb87659ae5a171ea
parentfb5c1765313930e03cd2a09ce015b9eaf0783826
i2c: i801: Do not create iTCO watchdog when WDAT table exists

ACPI WDAT table is the preferred way to use hardware watchdog over the
native iTCO_wdt. Windows only uses this table for its hardware watchdog
implementation so we should be relatively safe to trust it has been
validated by OEMs

Prevent iTCO watchdog creation if we detect that there is ACPI WDAT table.

Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.c