Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Aug 2012 19:18:15 +0200 | From | Samuel Ortiz <> | Subject | Re: Serious regression in 3.5's iTCO_wdt, does anyone care? |
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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@xes-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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