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From: "Hennerich, Michael" <Michael.Hennerich@analog.com>
To: "axel.lin@gmail.com" <axel.lin@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>,
	"device-drivers-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org" 
	<device-drivers-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] backlight: Fix the logic to set bits in adp8860_bl and adp8870_bl drivers
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:33:38 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <544AC56F16B56944AEC3BD4E3D59177148736CE09D@LIMKCMBX1.ad.analog.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAF+7xW=qATBpVy-wG6+Joq+LB19TmM6qJUxoOV0U7R8omLVrxw@mail.gmail.com>

Axel Lin wrote on 2012-01-14:
>>> diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/adp8860_bl.c
>>> b/drivers/video/backlight/adp8860_bl.c index 66bc74d..378276c 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/video/backlight/adp8860_bl.c +++
>>> b/drivers/video/backlight/adp8860_bl.c @@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ static int
>>> adp8860_set_bits(struct i2c_client *client, int reg, uint8_t bit_mask
>>>
>>>       ret = adp8860_read(client, reg, &reg_val);
>>>
>>> -     if (!ret && ((reg_val & bit_mask) == 0)) { +     if (!ret &&
>>> ((reg_val & bit_mask) != bit_mask)) {               reg_val |=
>>> bit_mask;               ret = adp8860_write(client, reg, reg_val);
>>>   } diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/adp8870_bl.c
>>> b/drivers/video/backlight/adp8870_bl.c index 6c68a68..6735059 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/video/backlight/adp8870_bl.c +++
>>> b/drivers/video/backlight/adp8870_bl.c @@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ static int
>>> adp8870_set_bits(struct i2c_client *client, int reg, uint8_t bit_mask
>>>
>>>       ret = adp8870_read(client, reg, &reg_val);
>>>
>>> -     if (!ret && ((reg_val & bit_mask) == 0)) {
>>> +     if (!ret && ((reg_val & bit_mask) != bit_mask)) {
>>>               reg_val |= bit_mask;
>>>               ret = adp8870_write(client, reg, reg_val);
>>>       }
>>
>> This patch is applicable to 3.2.x, but I don't know whether to route it
>> to -stable becasue you didn't tell me what effect the patch has :(
>>
>
> It's because I don't have this hardware.
> I just found the bug while reading the code.
>
> I was thinking I should CC stable, but since the code is there for a
> long time
> and I don't know any complains of the bug. So I didn't CC stable.
>
> Michael, do you see any user-visible effects of the bug?

No - This fixes a bug. The code seemed to be working before,
only by accident.


Greetings,
Michael

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      reply	other threads:[~2012-01-16  8:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-13  8:15 [PATCH] backlight: Fix the logic to set bits in adp8860_bl and adp8870_bl drivers Axel Lin
2012-01-13 22:10 ` Andrew Morton
2012-01-14  9:22   ` Axel Lin
2012-01-16  8:33     ` Hennerich, Michael [this message]

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