Re: Serious regression in 3.5's iTCO_wdt, does anyone care?

[Feng Tang]

2012/8/23 Thomas Bächler <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> This regards the following commit in the Linus tree:
>
> commit 887c8ec7219fc8eba78bb8f44a74c660934e9b98
> Author: Aaron Sierra <asierra@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 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
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