Serious regression in 3.5's iTCO_wdt, does anyone care?
This regards the following commit in the Linus tree:
commit 887c8ec7219fc8eba78bb8f44a74c660934e9b98
Author: Aaron Sierra <[email protected]> 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.
Regards
Thomas Bächler
2012/8/23 Thomas Bächler <[email protected]>:
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This regards the following commit in the Linus tree:
commit
887c8ec7219fc8eba78bb8f44a74c660934e9b98Author: Aaron Sierra <[email protected]> Date: Fri Apr 20 14:14:11 2012 -0500watchdog: Convert
iTCO_wdtdriver to mfd modelEver since the Linux 3.5 update, the
iTCO_wdtdriver 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.
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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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Am 23.08.2012 16:35, schrieb Feng Tang:
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2012/8/23 Thomas Bächler <[email protected]>:
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This regards the following commit in the Linus tree:
commit
887c8ec7219fc8eba78bb8f44a74c660934e9b98Author: Aaron Sierra <[email protected]> Date: Fri Apr 20 14:14:11 2012 -0500watchdog: Convert
iTCO_wdtdriver to mfd modelEver since the Linux 3.5 update, the
iTCO_wdtdriver 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.
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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
And there I thought I had searched the LKML for lpc_ich and iTCO_wdt. Apparently my last search was more than a week ago.
Would have been nice if you posted the link to the discussion into the bug report, this would have saved me (and others) some trouble.
Thanks anyway, the discussion has all the information I needed. Sorry for the noise.
Hi Thomas,
Quoted 6 lines · Thomas Bächler
This regards the following commit in the Linus tree:
commit
887c8ec7219fc8eba78bb8f44a74c660934e9b98Author: Aaron Sierra <[email protected]> Date: Fri Apr 20 14:14:11 2012 -0500
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watchdog: Convert
iTCO_wdtdriver to mfd modelEver since the Linux 3.5 update, the
iTCO_wdtdriver 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...
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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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