linux-kernel - Re: Serious regression in 3.5's iTCO

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Date:	Thu, 23 Aug 2012 19:18:15 +0200
From:	Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Thomas Bächler <thomas@...hlinux.org>
Cc:	Peter Tyser <ptyser@...-inc.com>, Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@...ana.be>,
	Aaron Sierra <asierra@...-inc.com>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-watchdog@...r.kernel.org,
	Tobias Powalowski <tpowa@...hlinux.org>
Subject: Re: Serious regression in 3.5's iTCO_wdt, does anyone care?

Hi Thomas,

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 04:15:46PM +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote:
> This regards the following commit in the Linus tree:
> 
> commit 887c8ec7219fc8eba78bb8f44a74c660934e9b98
> Author: Aaron Sierra <asierra@...-inc.com>
> 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.
Cc'ing the relevant maintainers usually helps...


> 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.
I applied Feng's patch to my for-linus branch and I'll send a pull request
soon. It should be part of the 3.6 kernel.

Cheers,
Samuel.

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