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

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Message-ID: <CA++bM2tMVLQLn2=_MwhEp79xJpj6fjz+Smd5ZpE5dLKObe+hCw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 23 Aug 2012 22:35:08 +0800
From:	Feng Tang <feng.79.tang@...il.com>
To:	Thomas Bächler <thomas@...hlinux.org>
Cc:	Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>,
	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?

2012/8/23 Thomas Bächler <thomas@...hlinux.org>:
> 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.
>
> 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

Thanks,
Feng
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