Re: [PATCH] MIPS: SMTC: Correct saving of CP0_STATUS

["Kevin D. Kissell" <kevink@paralogos.com>]

On 08/29/11 17:14, David Daney wrote:
> On 08/29/2011 04:55 PM, Kevin D. Kissell wrote:
>> I submitted that exact patch (David's more minimal version) in December
>> 2010 (and I did test it).  Did it not take?
>
> Evidently not.  Perhaps Ralf will see fit to commit it this time.

Looking back over the exchange and thinking about the date,
in all fairness to Ralf, when I submitted it, it was a diff -u and
not a git diff, because I was at my brother-in-law's house for
the holidays and had no access to my MIPS Linux git machine.
It got picked up by patchwork.linux-mips.org ( patch/1896 ),
but was only actually tested by Anoop a couple of days
later.  He confirmed that it solved the problem, but also that
there were other problems with SMTC in the then-current
head, apparently relating to timekeeping_notify().  Those
problems weren't resolved in the context of that email thread,
so the patch - something along the lines of which really and
truly is necessary - may have been ignored as a partial fix,
even though it is a self-contained solution to a self-contained bug.

            Regards,

            Kevin K.