Re: Serious regression in 3.5's iTCO_wdt, does anyone care?

From: Thomas Bächler
Date: Thu Aug 23 2012 - 10:46:05 EST


Am 23.08.2012 16:35, schrieb Feng Tang:
> 2012/8/23 Thomas Bächler <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> This regards the following commit in the Linus tree:
>>
>> commit 887c8ec7219fc8eba78bb8f44a74c660934e9b98
>> Author: Aaron Sierra <asierra@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: Fri Apr 20 14:14:11 2012 -0500
>>
>> watchdog: Convert iTCO_wdt driver to mfd model
>>
>> Ever since the Linux 3.5 update, the iTCO_wdt driver has been completely
>> non-functional on every machine I encountered due to the above
>> conversion. A bug report for this problem has been open at
>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44991 for over a month.
>>
>> Yet, neither the author of the commit, nor the people who signed off on
>> it have reacted to the bug report.
>>
>> At this point, I believe that none of you are actually aware of the
>> problem and I write you to change that unfortunate situation.
>
> There is already a patch posted for this bug, pls check
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/8/14/309
> and the discussion

And there I thought I had searched the LKML for lpc_ich and iTCO_wdt.
Apparently my last search was more than a week ago.

Would have been nice if you posted the link to the discussion into the
bug report, this would have saved me (and others) some trouble.

Thanks anyway, the discussion has all the information I needed. Sorry
for the noise.


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