linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] MSM fix

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Date:	Wed, 20 Jul 2011 23:54:06 +0100
From:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
To:	David Brown <davidb@...eaurora.org>
Cc:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] MSM fix

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 03:50:10PM -0700, David Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:06:15PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Wednesday 20 July 2011 13:37:03 David Brown wrote:
> > > I seem to have missed this fix when it was sent out in April.
> > > 
> > > The following changes since commit 620917de59eeb934b9f8cf35cc2d95c1ac8ed0fc:
> > > 
> > >   Linux 3.0-rc7 (2011-07-11 16:51:52 -0700)
> > > 
> > > are available in the git repository at:
> > >   git://codeaurora.org/quic/kernel/davidb/linux-msm.git msm-fix
> > > 
> > > Jeff Ohlstein (1):
> > >       msm: platsmp: actually read core count in get_core_count
> > > 
> > 
> > Hmm, this one seems like it really applies to older kernels as well, so
> > we can just as well add a cc:stable@...nel.org tag and put it into the
> > arm-soc/next/fixes branch, right?
> 
> It looks like it would apply to 2.6.38 and 39 as well.  I'm not sure
> it qualifies under the "It must fix a real bug that bothers people".
> It would only apply if someone had set NR_CPUS to more than 2.

Err, this makes no sense.  MSM doesn't have a get_core_count function
and as far as I can see never has done in mainline.

And where is the patch?

We shouldn't be pulling git requests into arm-soc without having seen
the patches on LAKML.
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