Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755510AbZD3Kow (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:44:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753283AbZD3Kom (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:44:42 -0400 Received: from citadel.icyb.net.ua ([212.40.38.140]:3829 "EHLO citadel.icyb.net.ua" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753092AbZD3Kom (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:44:42 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 464 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:44:40 EDT Message-ID: <49F97E81.8020201@icyb.net.ua> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:33:37 +0300 From: Andriy Gapon User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090406) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wim Van Sebroeck CC: Stephen Clark , Denys Fedoryschenko , Johannes Dewender , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Frans Pop , Rutger Nijlunsing , Kernel Testers List , Andrew Morton , LKML Subject: Re: [WATCHDOG] iTCO_wdt.c - ICH9 reboot issue - testing wanted References: <20090430094918.GC4141@infomag.iguana.be> In-Reply-To: <20090430094918.GC4141@infomag.iguana.be> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1180 Lines: 26 on 30/04/2009 12:49 Wim Van Sebroeck said the following: > Hi All, > > I'm looking for people that can test the below patch(es). > I'm mainly interested in knowing if you experience any side-effects when using this patch. > (See also bugzilla 9868, 10195, 12363 & 12162). > > For people not using the watchdog or without any reboot problems the driver should > work as normal after compilation/installation/... > > For people that have the ICH9 reboot problems: load the module with module-parameter > gbl_smi_en=0 and test the watchdog functionality again. BTW: when I suggested a similar patch for FreeBSD ichwd driver I was advised to prominently warn that globally disabling SMI could possibly lead to dramatic problems, especially on laptops. I.e. various ACPI things where SMI is used for communication between OS and firmware. I am not sure if this issue is applicable to laptops at all, but just in case. -- Andriy Gapon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/