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SubjectRe: [PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.14 065/110] led: core: Fix brightness setting when setting delay_off=0
Hi!

> > At least 7b6af2c531 ("leds: core: Fix regression caused by commit
> > 2b83ff96f51d") is missing, causing visible regressions (LEDs not working at
> > all) on some OpenWrt devices. This was fixed in 4.4.121 by reverting the
> > offending commit, but if I followed the discussion correctly, 4.9 should
> > get the follow-up commit 7b6af2c531 instead (like 4.14 already did).
> >
> > Jacek's mail I replied to mentions that eb1610b4c273 ("led: core: Fix
> > blink_brightness setting race") should be included in 4.9 as well, but I
> > don't know the impact of the issue it fixes.
>
> It doesn't fix any reported issue, but is just an improvement
> aiming at preventing potential races while changing blink brightness.
>
> After taking closer look it turns out that for the patches in question
> to apply cleanly we need in 4.9 also a patch which introduces atomic
> bit fields for blink flags.
>
> Effectively, here is the list of patches required in 4.9 stable:
>
> Revert "led: core: Fix brightness setting when setting delay_off=0"
>
> followed by:
>
> a9c6ce57ec ("led: core: Use atomic bit-field for the blink-flags")
> eb1610b4c2 ("led: core: Fix blink_brightness setting race")
> 2b83ff96f5 ("led: core: Fix brightness setting when setting delay_off=0")
> 7b6af2c531 ("leds: core: Fix regression caused by commit 2b83ff96f51d")

For the record... there's no serious problem in LED subsystem in
v4.9. Just leave LED subsystem alone in v4.9-stable (reverting any
patches that were backported by some kind of bot that did not even
test them), and things will be fine.
Pavel
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