Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758959Ab2HWOfO (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Aug 2012 10:35:14 -0400 Received: from mail-pb0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:36388 "EHLO mail-pb0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756694Ab2HWOfI convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Aug 2012 10:35:08 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <50363B12.4060009@archlinux.org> References: <50363B12.4060009@archlinux.org> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 22:35:08 +0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Serious regression in 3.5's iTCO_wdt, does anyone care? From: Feng Tang To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Thomas_B=E4chler?= Cc: Samuel Ortiz , Peter Tyser , Wim Van Sebroeck , Aaron Sierra , Guenter Roeck , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org, Tobias Powalowski Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1190 Lines: 31 2012/8/23 Thomas B?chler : > 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=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 -- 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/