Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Mar 2018 14:27:48 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.14 065/110] led: core: Fix brightness setting when setting delay_off=0 |
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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") > > Odd, I just got another report that the 4.9.87 release fixed some > reported LED issues, so why do I need all of these? > > Should I just revert the single 2b83ff96f51d commit here instead?
I believe so, yes.
I'm not aware of any _really bad_ issues with LED subsystem in 4.9. Take a look at changelog of 2b83ff96f51d0b039c4561b9f95c824d7bddb85c -- it fixes rather theoretical issue; user can reproduce it by hand in shell, but, well... don't do it then.
The rest of fixes ... fix some more theoretical races. I don't think it is -stable material, as I pointed out before.
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