From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 10:49:58 +0200 From: Jean Delvare To: Guenter Roeck Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux , linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: it87 causes VIA hardware to lockup Message-ID: <20170504104958.45cd6364@endymion> In-Reply-To: <89d6fe8b-206e-9354-498c-bd5e1e44d3cd@roeck-us.net> References: <20170312103413.GJ21222@n2100.armlinux.org.uk> <20170312132544.GA17687@roeck-us.net> <20170312141522.GL21222@n2100.armlinux.org.uk> <20170312142634.GA1917@roeck-us.net> <20170321134430.GA3177@roeck-us.net> <20170321140812.GZ21222@n2100.armlinux.org.uk> <20170321170503.GC13789@roeck-us.net> <20170409153806.6dac6bbd@endymion> <20170409152407.GB23984@roeck-us.net> <20170425153045.0c44641b@endymion> <89d6fe8b-206e-9354-498c-bd5e1e44d3cd@roeck-us.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-ID: Hi Guenter, On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 06:49:27 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On 04/25/2017 06:30 AM, Jean Delvare wrote: > > I took a look at stable branches v4.9 and v4.10 and I can't find this > > fix. Do you still plan to check if the fix applies and poke Greg about > > it? Or do you want me to do it? > > Severe lack of time on my side, sorry. Feel free to do it if you have some slack. I finally found some time to look into this. The fix applies just fine to kernel branches 4.9 and 4.10, so I asked stable@ to pick it. > > (...) > > But isn't as good as doing the right thing, which would require less > > code. So I don't really follow your logic. > > Call it paranoia. I have not received feedback if the patch is actually working, > and I am unable to test it myself. Feel free to send a patch to remove the redundant > part if you think it should be dropped. Yes I think, and yes I will. -- Jean Delvare SUSE L3 Support