From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753923AbaLCQVY (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2014 11:21:24 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:54715 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752222AbaLCQVV (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2014 11:21:21 -0500 Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 08:21:20 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Arend van Spriel Cc: Jeremiah Mahler , Stephen Rothwell , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-next@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the driver-core tree with the net-next tree Message-ID: <20141203162120.GA5411@kroah.com> References: <20141201181933.6dfaad66@canb.auug.org.au> <547C19ED.10201@broadcom.com> <20141203083655.GA5418@hudson.localdomain> <20141203105148.GA7633@hudson.localdomain> <547F06BC.8060000@broadcom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <547F06BC.8060000@broadcom.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 01:49:00PM +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote: > On 12/03/14 11:51, Jeremiah Mahler wrote: > >On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 12:36:55AM -0800, Jeremiah Mahler wrote: > >>all, > >> > >>On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 08:34:05AM +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote: > >>>On 01-12-14 08:19, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > >>>>Hi Greg, > >>>> > >>>>Today's linux-next merge of the driver-core tree got a conflict in > >>>>drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/debug.c between commits 70e535ed0029 > >>>>("ath9k: clean up debugfs print of reset causes"), 7b8aaead958e > >>>>("ath9k: restart hardware after noise floor calibration failure") and > >>>>325e18817668 ("ath9k: fix misc debugfs when not using chan context") > >>>>from the net-next tree and commit 631bee257bd5 ("ath: use seq_file api > >>>>for ath9k debugfs files") from the driver-core tree. > >>>> > >>>>I fixed it up (see below) and can carry the fix as necessary (no action > >>>>is required). > >>>> > >>>>Greg, I am not sure why those 2 commits are even in your tree. Do they > >>>>depend on something else in your tree? > >>> > >>>They do. The three commits below are related: > >>> > >>>d32394f ath: ath9k: use debugfs_create_devm_seqfile() helper for > >>>seq_file entrie > >>>631bee2 ath: use seq_file api for ath9k debugfs files > >>>98210b7 debugfs: add helper function to create device related seq_file > >>> > >>>The ath patches were made to provide example of using the new helper > >>>function and get some idea about code savings. Greg and John discussed > >>>who would take them. I noticed other ath changes in net-next so I kinda > >>>expected this email ;-) > >>> > >>>Regards, > >>>Arend > >>>-- > >>>To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > >>>the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > >>>More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > >>>Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > >> > >>I just ran in to a problem with one of these commits. > >> > >>On an Acer C720 laptop if a suspend is performed the screen freezes, > >>the machine locks up, and according to the indicator lights it does > >>not enter suspend. A hard reset is required to get it running again. > >> > >>I have bisected the kernel and found that the following is the first bad > >>commit. > >> > >> commit d32394fae95741d733b174ec1446f27765f80233 > >> Author: Arend van Spriel > >> Date: Sun Nov 9 11:32:00 2014 +0100 > >> > >> ath: ath9k: use debugfs_create_devm_seqfile() helper for seq_file > >> entries > >> > >> Use the helper to get rid of the file operations per debugfs file. > >> The > >> struct ath9k_softc pointer is set as device driver data to be > >> obtained > >> in the seq_file read operation. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel > >> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman > >> > >>Let me know if I can do anything else to help. > >> > >>-- > >>- Jeremiah Mahler > > > >I took a look at the patch that is causing this problem (d32394fae95). > >My config negates everything in the patch except for a one line change > >to ath9k/pci.c. If I remove this change (shown below) the problem goes > >away. > > Ok. But then it will likely crash when you cat one of the changed debugfs > files. Guess this commit needs to be reverted entirely. What commit, d32394fae95741d733b174ec1446f27765f80233?