On 03/20/2013 10:50 PM, Andrew Morton : > On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 18:37:12 +0100 Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.fe...@atmel.com> > wrote: > >> On some revisions of AT91 SoCs, the RTC IMR register is not working. >> Instead of elaborating a workaround for that specific SoC or IP version, >> we simply use a software variable to store the Interrupt Mask Register and >> modify it for each enabling/disabling of an interrupt. The overhead of this >> is negligible anyway. > > This description doesn't really allow me or others to work out whether > the fix should be included in 3.9 or backported into earlier kernels. > > So please, when fixing a bug do include a full description of the > user-visible effects of that bug. And your opinion regarding the > -mainline and -stable decision is always useful.
Yes, sure. Concerning this patch, we can imagine to push it upstream as a bugfix for 3.9-rc. It is not a regression because... well... it has never worked properly on the affected SoC family. For -stable, we can add this tag: Cc: stable <sta...@vger.kernel.org> [v3.8+] As this patch applies up to this revision. For other kernel releases, I will need to rework the patch a little bit due to files name modifications. Thanks, best regards, -- Nicolas Ferre -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
