From: David Brown <davidb@codeaurora.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Jeff Ohlstein <johlstei@codeaurora.org>,
Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>,
Bryan Huntsman <bryanh@codeaurora.org>,
Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
stable@kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH v2] msm: timer: compensate for timer shift in msm_read_timer_count
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:27:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8ya7h8gozhn.fsf@huya.qualcomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110620215922.GA21909@kroah.com> (Greg KH's message of "Mon, 20 Jun 2011 14:59:22 -0700")
On Mon, Jun 20 2011, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 01:55:38PM -0700, Jeff Ohlstein wrote:
>> Some msm targets have timers whose lower bits are unreliable. So, we
>> present our timers as lower frequency than they actually are, and ignore
>> the bottom 5 bits on such targets. This compensation was erroneously
>> removed from the msm_read_timer_count function, so restore it.
>>
>> This was broken by 94790ec25 "msm: timer: SMP timer support for msm".
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jeff Ohlstein <johlstei@codeaurora.org>
>> ---
>> arch/arm/mach-msm/timer.c | 6 +++++-
>> 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>
> <formletter>
>
> This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
> stable kernel tree. Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
> for how to do this properly.
>
> </formletter>
I don't think this patch was intended for stable in the first place.
Jeff, this is a fix for 3.0-rcx, right?
David
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-20 23:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-17 20:55 [PATCH v2] msm: timer: compensate for timer shift in msm_read_timer_count Jeff Ohlstein
2011-06-20 21:59 ` Greg KH
2011-06-20 23:27 ` David Brown [this message]
2011-06-21 16:24 ` [stable] " Greg KH
2011-07-05 19:15 ` Jeff Ohlstein
2011-07-06 2:45 ` Greg KH
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