From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756493Ab2JCSSB (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2012 14:18:01 -0400 Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:46174 "EHLO out1-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754524Ab2JCSR7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2012 14:17:59 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: jvygHZSzh2WaUTihWOvcEv82gM6i/3E0giVPXtqdm2PA 1349288279 Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 11:17:57 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Laxman Dewangan Cc: arm@vger.kernel.org, djbw@fb.com, vinod.koul@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] dma: tegra: fix interrupt name issue with apb dma. Message-ID: <20121003181757.GA24871@kroah.com> References: <1349284687-22311-1-git-send-email-ldewangan@nvidia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1349284687-22311-1-git-send-email-ldewangan@nvidia.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 10:48:07PM +0530, Laxman Dewangan wrote: > When watching the interrupts through /proc/interrupts, > the name of the interrupts are blank or garbage. The > reason is the pointer passed for devname during irq > registration is stack and so it get changed after > dma registration completes. > Allocate the pointer as part of dma channel and pass > this pointer as the devname for irq registration to > avoid change of name. > > Signed-off-by: Laxman Dewangan > --- > drivers/dma/tegra20-apb-dma.c | 6 +++--- > 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 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.