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Date:	Sat, 23 Feb 2013 10:20:48 +0100
From:	Christian Gmeiner <christian.gmeiner@...il.com>
To:	Bryan Wu <cooloney@...il.com>
Cc:	akpm <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-next@...r.kernel.org" <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] leds-ot200: Fix misbehavior caused by wrong bit masks

2013/2/15 Bryan Wu <cooloney@...il.com>:
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 7:58 AM, Christian Gmeiner
> <christian.gmeiner@...il.com> 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 masks by one.
>>
>> Our customers can control LEDs from userspace via Java,
>> C++ or what every. They have running/working applications where
>> they want to control led_3 but led_2 get's used.
>> I got a bug report in our in-house bug tracker so it would be
>> great to fix this upstream.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Christian Gmeiner <christian.gmeiner@...il.com>
>
> Thanks, Christian.
>
> And Andrew, are you going to take care of this patch? Or I will merge this.
>

Whats the current state of the patch? Hope we can get it into 3.9 :)

--
Christian Gmeiner, MSc
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