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

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Date:	Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:41:52 +0100
From:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	David Brown <davidb@...eaurora.org>,
	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 Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 04:49:39PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 21 July 2011, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> I've committed the version below now, with a clarified title.
> The patch looks reasonable to me, but there may be some issue
> I'm missing of course. The other platforms that used to have
> a get_core_count function no longer have that because you changed
> them to use scu_get_core_count, but that doesn't seem to apply
> to mach-msm.

That patch description helps a lot to clarify what's going on.
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