From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mga01.intel.com ([192.55.52.88]:4616 "EHLO mga01.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933866Ab2HWRUP (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Aug 2012 13:20:15 -0400 Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 19:18:15 +0200 From: Samuel Ortiz To: Thomas =?iso-8859-1?Q?B=E4chler?= Cc: Peter Tyser , Wim Van Sebroeck , Aaron Sierra , Guenter Roeck , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org, Tobias Powalowski Subject: Re: Serious regression in 3.5's iTCO_wdt, does anyone care? Message-ID: <20120823171815.GE9889@sortiz-mobl> References: <50363B12.4060009@archlinux.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <50363B12.4060009@archlinux.org> Sender: linux-watchdog-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Thomas, On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 04:15:46PM +0200, Thomas B=E4chler wrote: > This regards the following commit in the Linus tree: >=20 > commit 887c8ec7219fc8eba78bb8f44a74c660934e9b98 > Author: Aaron Sierra > Date: Fri Apr 20 14:14:11 2012 -0500 >=20 > watchdog: Convert iTCO_wdt driver to mfd model >=20 > Ever since the Linux 3.5 update, the iTCO_wdt driver has been completel= y > 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=3D44991 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. >=20 > 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 reques= t soon. It should be part of the 3.6 kernel. Cheers, Samuel. --=20 Intel Open Source Technology Centre http://oss.intel.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-watchdog"= in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html