linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] leds-ot200: Fix error caused by shifted mask

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Message-ID: <CAH9NwWdtai6uPCAZZuQt_n4sb7rounSa_UHCHoncBAAS2TmwBA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 12 Oct 2012 08:20:07 +0200
From:	Christian Gmeiner <christian.gmeiner@...il.com>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	rpurdie@...ys.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] leds-ot200: Fix error caused by shifted mask

2012/10/1 Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>:
> On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 02:50:40PM +0200, Christian Gmeiner wrote:
>> During the development of this driver an in-house register
>> documentation was used. The last weeks some integration tests
>> were done and this problem was found. It turned out that
>> the released register documentation is wrong.
>>
>> The fix is very simple: shift all mask by one.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Christian Gmeiner <christian.gmeiner@...il.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/leds/leds-ot200.c | 14 +++++++-------
>>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> <formletter>
>
> This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
> stable kernel tree.  Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
> for how to do this properly.
>
> </formletter>

Thanks... I will inform stable team again if this patch gets into
mainline - hopefully soon.
--
Christian Gmeiner, MSc
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