Re: [PATCH] clk: Make the managed clk functions generically available

[Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>]

On 09/16/2012 07:31 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 10:43:07PM +0200, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
>> I wouldn't mind having this merged sooner rather than later, there is at least
>> one driver in next which is currently broken due to the missing devm_clk_get.
>> Russell what's your plan for the patch? Maybe under the given circumstances it
>> makes sense to let it go through the m68k tree.
>
> Ok, I've merged it but there was no indication in the patch that it was
> supposed to be a fix... there's no cc: to stable.  Does it need to go to
> stable?  When was this brokenness introduced?  What's the story for the
> m68k bit?

For the m68k issues this is not a candidate for stable. The breakage
that this fixes did not occur until the 3.6 merge window.

The fact that it fixes some breakage on some m68k platforms is more
of a side effect, and the original patch author would not have known
about this. The underlying problem was with the local m68k/coldfire
implementation of devm_clk_get, but this patch makes that code go
away completely.

Regards
Greg


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