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| author |   Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> | 2018-08-31 15:06:10 +0200 |
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| committer |   Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org> | 2018-10-02 13:32:24 +0200 |
| commit | 2c05318ad5c390e65d6c819debeff3dfa262223e (patch) | |
| tree | 9beea65eac2a31d114c4d15a01c8621493414dbd /include/linux | |
| parent | watchdog: renesas_wdt: stop when unregistering (diff) | |
watchdog: iTCO_wdt: Drop option vendorsupport=2
iTCO_vendor_support's option vendorsupport=2 is a gross hack. It
claims to extend the existing iTCO_wdt driver, but in fact programs
a watchdog on a completely different device (Super-I/O) without
requesting its I/O ports and without checking the device ID. This is
an utterly dangerous thing to do.
It also turns out to be unnecessary, because as far as I can tell, the
code in question is basically duplicating what the clean w83627hf_wdt
driver is doing.
My guess is that on these SuperMicro boards which sparkled the
implementation of vendorsupport=2, the watchdog functionality of the
Intel south bridge is not used, and the watchdog feature of some
W83627HF-like Super-I/O chip is used instead. So we should point the
users to the w83627hf_wdt driver.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Cc: Martin Wilck <mwilck@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>
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