linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ARM: ux500: Only configure wake-up reasons on ux500 based platforms

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Message-ID: <20130524082428.GO22683@gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 24 May 2013 09:24:28 +0100
From:	Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
To:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Cc:	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Linus WALLEIJ <linus.walleij@...ricsson.com>,
	Srinidhi KASAGAR <srinidhi.kasagar@...ricsson.com>,
	Rob Herring <rob.herring@...xeda.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: ux500: Only configure wake-up reasons on ux500
 based platforms

On Fri, 24 May 2013, Linus Walleij wrote:

> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org> wrote:
> 
> > Multiplatform calls all enabled platforms' initcalls. In the
> > ux500_idle_init() initcall we call into the DBx500-PRCMU which in turn
> > executes some ux500 specific register reads/writes. When running on
> > some !ux500 platforms this ends up causing a kernel Oops. This patch
> > ensures the PRCMU call is only invoked when running on ux500 based
> > platforms.
> >
> > Reported-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring@...xeda.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
> 
> Patch applied for ux500 fixes.
> 
> Hm, again and again I get so confused by this, don't you say
> "wakeup CAUSE" rather than "wakeup REASON"?
> 
> Maybe I don't know the anglo saxon well enough...

The words 'cause' and 'reason' are fairly synonymous and are
interchangeable in a great many situations. You have to be an English
literary Nazi to care enough to work out the semantics, which in case
you hadn't noticed, I'm not. :)

But, credit where credit's due, in this particular instance you are
correct. Feel free to fixup.

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Lee Jones
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