Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932842Ab2HWOYt (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Aug 2012 10:24:49 -0400 Received: from gerolde.archlinux.org ([66.211.214.132]:47557 "EHLO gerolde.archlinux.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753615Ab2HWOYr (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Aug 2012 10:24:47 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 532 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 10:24:47 EDT Message-ID: <50363B12.4060009@archlinux.org> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:15:46 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Thomas_B=E4chler?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120717 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Samuel Ortiz , Peter Tyser , Wim Van Sebroeck , Aaron Sierra , Guenter Roeck CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org, Tobias Powalowski Subject: Serious regression in 3.5's iTCO_wdt, does anyone care? X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.3 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig042C56DF574069BAE902F0B7" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2364 Lines: 58 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig042C56DF574069BAE902F0B7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This regards the following commit in the Linus tree: commit 887c8ec7219fc8eba78bb8f44a74c660934e9b98 Author: Aaron Sierra 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=3D44991 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. Regards Thomas B=E4chler --------------enig042C56DF574069BAE902F0B7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJQNjsVAAoJEChPw0yOSxolZj0P/1k03l70GyARaCGJySVCbhH+ UPUEgisUDpTYLEbEjHH3zN99YscqqFNvf6Pecfat5mvAR+nxIv/0C5reEy/+4YHs o9on/LsWI/FOwfDzO23IC7CXyohiiuUCglZ4Qlfx7DvRcQZ7LHQ9Aidnxa0egajo mOptDlPp5gwcrgfBafITNLPcjWTRw62S8F66NlHc4uTJIDx43Koo26nExglVOzdq qC0X2MBInEAJ++cNsSjwYFPMRORzP59AJdDNg2SoM+Qnv5Pt07SuJG/SnmJ6NPwF oSfnjf3rhRzxRwVPvjmYt6GtVUCavou9QalbXgyi6t01DwIGQpvAfIgMUKe/FMa+ qZrJzIu4gYI6CrtyXyhR/XgI0See02Oni9NdUT05RFq85xczbI5rlNcweD9CAL1Y mSP922TTfbquRuvBSyPYhRMbmAikTWnnyptvqbVioxVilk6WwJWKjOmUy2kmgPKI xBN4trt3chsZ2+GB5okcZkZl8OblJbhMhg32UKL/WP3lQoPvjKbQ5UWqSee1zZrt ljdTb/MmccsXYiiDlMA02PvG5ZTjvn2Yeq2NO/qyQYCTIuAkvc+qOoy6fX3qlOYT z9qy17Jt1mdysRRqsTCkQ4Fm6iNcQiinkIM1Ys/aqzl1KHhb2+hdcxNVLbnP26Wj ovIpPCMd+bGs/6W5Dgm6 =T/NN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig042C56DF574069BAE902F0B7-- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/