Re: [PATCH] leds-ot200: Fix misbehavior caused by wrong bit masks

From: Christian Gmeiner
Date: Fri Mar 08 2013 - 02:27:25 EST


2013/3/5 Bryan Wu <cooloney@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 11:40 PM, Christian Gmeiner
> <christian.gmeiner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> ping
>> --
>> Christian Gmeiner, MSc
>>
>>
>> 2013/2/23 Christian Gmeiner <christian.gmeiner@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>> 2013/2/15 Bryan Wu <cooloney@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>>> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 7:58 AM, Christian Gmeiner
>>>> <christian.gmeiner@xxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>

I am fine with the current situation and 3.10 is fine too.

thanks
--
Christian Gmeiner, MSc
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