linux-kernel - [PATCH] watchdog: Enforce that at least one pretimeout governor is enabled

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Date:   Tue,  7 May 2019 17:43:03 -0700
From:   Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:     Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@...ux-watchdog.org>
Cc:     linux-watchdog@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Subject: [PATCH] watchdog: Enforce that at least one pretimeout governor is enabled

Since commit "watchdog: Use depends instead of select for pretimeout
governors", it was possible to enable pretimeout governors but keep all
of them disabled. Doing this results in the following build failure.

../drivers/watchdog/watchdog_pretimeout.c:
	In function ‘watchdog_register_governor’:
../drivers/watchdog/watchdog_pretimeout.c:139:26: error:
	‘WATCHDOG_PRETIMEOUT_DEFAULT_GOV’ undeclared
   if (!strncmp(gov->name, WATCHDOG_PRETIMEOUT_DEFAULT_GOV,

Since it does not make sense to enable pretimeout support but disable
all pretimeout governors, enforce that at least one of them is always
enabled.

Fixes: f627ac0e12cd ("watchdog: Use depends instead of select for pretimeout governors")
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
---
Fixes: sha is from next-20190507.

 drivers/watchdog/Kconfig | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig b/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig
index e19960ace0c0..4a3461afa96f 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig
@@ -71,6 +71,12 @@ config WATCHDOG_PRETIMEOUT_GOV
 	help
 	  The option allows to select watchdog pretimeout governors.
 
+config WATCHDOG_PRETIMEOUT_GOV_SEL
+	tristate
+	depends on WATCHDOG_PRETIMEOUT_GOV
+	default m
+	select WATCHDOG_PRETIMEOUT_GOV_PANIC if WATCHDOG_PRETIMEOUT_GOV_NOOP=n
+
 if WATCHDOG_PRETIMEOUT_GOV
 
 config WATCHDOG_PRETIMEOUT_GOV_NOOP
-- 
2.7.4