On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 17:23 +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 08:44:14AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 04:25:13AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 13:39 +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > > Is the following going to be considered for squeeze? > > > > > > I've cherry-picked all the necessary changes (I think): > > > > > > 8b6d043b7ee2d1b819dc833d677ea2aead71a0c0 resource: shared I/O region support > > > 729d273aa7c86eb1406ade4eadf249cff188bf9a hwmon: (f71882fg) Acquire I/O regions while we're working with them > > > cadb86570c41fe52a0ea741f1f9775e3412f0167 hwmon: f71882fg: use a muxed resource lock for the Super I/O port > > > 96cb4eb019ce3185ec0d946a74b5a2202f5067c9 watchdog: f71808e_wdt: new watchdog driver for Fintek F71808E and F71882FG > > > > That's the set of patches I've been using. Awesome. Thanks. > > It appears I was wrong. There's one small patch missing to get support > for the F71889FG watchdog: > dee00abbbcab97b8ee3bbafb5e786dde83e26741 watchdog: f71808e_wdt: add support for the F71889FG > > Interestingly, trying to load the bundled f71808e_wdt doesn't print a > error, which would be something about no device being found or > something like that: > # modprobe f71808e_wdt > FATAL: Error inserting f71808e_wdt (/lib/modules/2.6.32-5-amd64/kernel/drivers/watchdog/f71808e_wdt.ko): Kernel does not have module support Some idiot made the driver return ENOSYS instead of ENODEV for recognised but unsupported Fintek chips. On a system with no such hardware, I get: FATAL: Error inserting f71808e_wdt (/lib/modules/2.6.32-5-amd64/kernel/drivers/watchdog/f71808e_wdt.ko): No such device > Please take whichever decision you want wrt this driver, considering > the release schedule, I'd understand if that's wontfix for now. [...] I think so, it's not like a disk or network controller where people really need them to work from the start. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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