Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:50:06 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] rtc: rtc-at91rm9200: use a variable for storing IMR |
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On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 18:37:12 +0100 Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@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.
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