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| author | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2016-02-22 14:46:24 -0800 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2016-02-22 14:46:24 -0800 |
| commit | bb27d4998a9e8767674e8eda225c82cc149e5bc8 (patch) | |
| tree | dcabb8b8cc510003637323b30ed414b1a1ec86f6 /Documentation/misc-devices | |
| parent | 9676e84dfd641e3366a41f2c45ac5c55dbac820f (diff) | |
| parent | 35bf7692e765c2275bf93fe573f7ca868ab73453 (diff) | |
| download | linux-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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/misc-devices')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/misc-devices/mei/mei.txt | 12 |
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 |