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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2016-02-22 14:46:24 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2016-02-22 14:46:24 -0800
commitbb27d4998a9e8767674e8eda225c82cc149e5bc8 (patch)
treedcabb8b8cc510003637323b30ed414b1a1ec86f6 /Documentation/misc-devices
parent9676e84dfd641e3366a41f2c45ac5c55dbac820f (diff)
parent35bf7692e765c2275bf93fe573f7ca868ab73453 (diff)
downloadlinux-bb27d4998a9e8767674e8eda225c82cc149e5bc8.tar.bz2
Merge char-misc-next into staging-next
This resolves the merge issues and confusions people were having with the goldfish drivers due to changes for them showing up in two different trees. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/misc-devices/mei/mei.txt12
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/misc-devices/mei/mei.txt b/Documentation/misc-devices/mei/mei.txt
index 91c1fa34f48b..2b80a0cd621f 100644
--- a/Documentation/misc-devices/mei/mei.txt
+++ b/Documentation/misc-devices/mei/mei.txt
@@ -231,15 +231,15 @@ IT knows when a platform crashes even when there is a hard failure on the host.
The Intel AMT Watchdog is composed of two parts:
1) Firmware feature - receives the heartbeats
and sends an event when the heartbeats stop.
- 2) Intel MEI driver - connects to the watchdog feature, configures the
- watchdog and sends the heartbeats.
+ 2) Intel MEI iAMT watchdog driver - connects to the watchdog feature,
+ configures the watchdog and sends the heartbeats.
-The Intel MEI driver uses the kernel watchdog API to configure the Intel AMT
-Watchdog and to send heartbeats to it. The default timeout of the
+The Intel iAMT watchdog MEI driver uses the kernel watchdog API to configure
+the Intel AMT Watchdog and to send heartbeats to it. The default timeout of the
watchdog is 120 seconds.
-If the Intel AMT Watchdog feature does not exist (i.e. the connection failed),
-the Intel MEI driver will disable the sending of heartbeats.
+If the Intel AMT is not enabled in the firmware then the watchdog client won't enumerate
+on the me client bus and watchdog devices won't be exposed.
Supported Chipsets