linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] leds-ot200: Fix misbehavior caused by wrong bit masks

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Message-ID: <CAH9NwWceaA0MPGj65fOhmECL8A522qngU3RHGZ++Uz-6mVKKAg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 4 Mar 2013 08:40:17 +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

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Christian Gmeiner, MSc


2013/2/23 Christian Gmeiner <christian.gmeiner@...il.com>:
> 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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