From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Brown 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 Message-ID: <8ya7h8gozhn.fsf@huya.qualcomm.com> References: <1308344138-2862-1-git-send-email-johlstei@codeaurora.org> <20110620215922.GA21909@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from wolverine02.qualcomm.com ([199.106.114.251]:5132 "EHLO wolverine02.qualcomm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755167Ab1FTX1S (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jun 2011 19:27:18 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20110620215922.GA21909@kroah.com> (Greg KH's message of "Mon, 20 Jun 2011 14:59:22 -0700") Sender: linux-arm-msm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org To: Greg KH Cc: Jeff Ohlstein , Daniel Walker , Bryan Huntsman , Russell King , linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org 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 >> --- >> arch/arm/mach-msm/timer.c | 6 +++++- >> 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) >> > > > > 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. > > 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 -- Sent by an employee of the Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum.