Re: [PATCH 4.6 000/121] 4.6.2-stable review

Mark Brown
2016-06-06T23:46:41Z

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On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 04:33:14PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 06:43:47PM -0400, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:

> > I'm not familiar with the apq8016-sbc board or Qualcomm platforms in general
> > but this patch is known to cause deadlocks when looking up regulators that
> > were not registered via OF. This was an issue on at least some Nvidia boards.

> > So since this patch made it to stable, commit a21513742308 ("regulator: Fix
> > deadlock during regulator registration") [0] should also be included.

> Ugh. Why wasn't that patch also marked for stable inclusion? This was
> a problem waiting to happen that could have been totally avoided :(

Mostly because I forgot that the original one was at the time I applied
it.

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