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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Levente Kurusa <levex@linux.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	OSUOSL Drivers <devel@driverdev.osuosl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] staging: rtl8821ae: fix invalid bit mask on MSR_AP check
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 13:36:23 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140215103623.GE26722@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52FF1CFE.40504@linux.com>

On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 08:53:34AM +0100, Levente Kurusa wrote:
> Thanks Dan, maybe you know some people who could test it?
> RTLXXXXXX guys? Or maybe we can take the patch as is?
> I cannot really think of any other solution other than removing
> the other clause, but since that was written to the file,
> there must have been some logic behind that. I am slightly
> disappointed get_maintainer didn't really find anybody for
> this patch...

This driver is going to be deleted in the next couple weeks and replaced
with a re-written from scratch driver.

Your fix is correct.  It's just that no one tested the AP code for this.
I would feel comfortable applying it as-is if no one is available to
test it.

regards,
dan carpenter


  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-15 10:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-14 21:50 [PATCH] [RFC] staging: rtl8821ae: fix invalid bit mask on MSR_AP check Levente Kurusa
2014-02-14 22:00 ` Dan Carpenter
2014-02-15  7:53   ` Levente Kurusa
2014-02-15 10:36     ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2014-02-15 10:56       ` Levente Kurusa

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