From: Bryan Wu <cooloney@gmail.com>
To: Christian Gmeiner <christian.gmeiner@gmail.com>
Cc: akpm <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"linux-next@vger.kernel.org" <linux-next@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] leds-ot200: Fix misbehavior caused by wrong bit masks
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 10:46:51 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK5ve-JmVes+OA3MRyoZEo_Fz8_RHpdqmcTxNwwrUAnADpqvyw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH9NwWceaA0MPGj65fOhmECL8A522qngU3RHGZ++Uz-6mVKKAg@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 11:40 PM, Christian Gmeiner
<christian.gmeiner@gmail.com> wrote:
> ping
> --
> Christian Gmeiner, MSc
>
>
> 2013/2/23 Christian Gmeiner <christian.gmeiner@gmail.com>:
>> 2013/2/15 Bryan Wu <cooloney@gmail.com>:
>>> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 7:58 AM, Christian Gmeiner
>>> <christian.gmeiner@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> During the development of this driver an in-house register
>>>> documentation was used. The last weeks some integration tests
>>>> were done and this problem was found. It turned out that
>>>> the released register documentation is wrong.
>>>>
>>>> The fix is very simple: shift all masks by one.
>>>>
>>>> Our customers can control LEDs from userspace via Java,
>>>> C++ or what every. They have running/working applications where
>>>> they want to control led_3 but led_2 get's used.
>>>> I got a bug report in our in-house bug tracker so it would be
>>>> great to fix this upstream.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Christian Gmeiner <christian.gmeiner@gmail.com>
>>>
>>> Thanks, Christian.
>>>
>>> And Andrew, are you going to take care of this patch? Or I will merge this.
>>>
>>
>> Whats the current state of the patch? Hope we can get it into 3.9 :)
>>
I think this patch is already in linux-next via Andrew's tree (commit
023206171f235f93f26c314f76f5405a3077aaba). So it will be merged into
3.10 I guess, but not 3.9.
Or I can send out this patch to Linus as a fix and ask Andrew to drop
this from his tree.
Thanks,
-Bryan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-05 18:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-13 15:58 [PATCH] leds-ot200: Fix misbehavior caused by wrong bit masks Christian Gmeiner
2013-02-13 15:54 ` Greg KH
2013-02-15 22:47 ` Bryan Wu
2013-02-23 9:20 ` Christian Gmeiner
2013-03-04 7:40 ` Christian Gmeiner
2013-03-05 18:46 ` Bryan Wu [this message]
2013-03-08 7:26 ` Christian Gmeiner
2013-05-12 10:11 ` Christian Gmeiner
2013-05-14 7:06 ` Christian Gmeiner
2013-05-14 17:12 ` Bryan Wu
2013-05-14 17:16 ` Andrew Morton
2013-05-14 17:36 ` Bryan Wu
2013-05-15 6:38 ` Christian Gmeiner
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