On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 18:37:12 +0100 Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.fe...@atmel.com> wrote:
> On some revisions of AT91 SoCs, the RTC IMR register is not working. > Instead of elaborating a workaround for that specific SoC or IP version, > we simply use a software variable to store the Interrupt Mask Register and > modify it for each enabling/disabling of an interrupt. The overhead of this > is negligible anyway. This description doesn't really allow me or others to work out whether the fix should be included in 3.9 or backported into earlier kernels. So please, when fixing a bug do include a full description of the user-visible effects of that bug. And your opinion regarding the -mainline and -stable decision is always useful. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
