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Subject: Re: Adding iTCO_wdt fixes into 4.9-stable?
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W dniu 2018-11-26 o 02:00, Sasha Levin pisze:
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 11:24:18AM +0200, Mika Westerberg wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 10:01:48PM -0800, Krzysztof Olędzki wrote:
>>> I think older kernels should be fine, like I said - everything worked 
>>> under
>>> 4.4-stable. I suspect this is because of some ACPI / WDAT 
>>> improvements in
>>> 4.9, or between 4.5 - 4.8 for which we no longer support -stable. 
>>> Mika, do
>>> you know which change exactly introduce this side effect?
>>
>> IIRC it was the introduction of WDAT driver itself in commit
>> 058dfc767008 ("ACPI / watchdog: Add support for WDAT hardware
>> watchdog"). The driver went into v4.9 so I don't think older stable
>> kernels need this.
> 
> Great, thanks all!

Hi.

I tested 4.9.141-rc1 and everything seems to work correctly. Thank you 
for adding the patches!

Krzysztof