linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2 2/2] irqchip: gic: preserve gic V2 bypass bits in cpu ctrl register

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1406260302510.5170@nanos>
Date:	Thu, 26 Jun 2014 03:05:36 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Feng Kan <fkan@....com>
cc:	jason@...edaemon.net, marc.zyngier@....com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, patches@....com,
	Vinayak Kale <vkale@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 2/2] irqchip: gic: preserve gic V2 bypass bits in cpu
 ctrl register

On Wed, 25 Jun 2014, Feng Kan wrote:

> This change is made to preserve the GIC v2 bypass bits in the
> GIC_CPU_CTRL register (also known as the GICC_CTLR register in spec).
> This code will preserve all bits configured by the bootloader regarding
> v2 bypass group bits. In the X-Gene platform, the bypass functionality
> is not used and bypass bits should not be changed by the kernel gic
> code as it could lead to incorrect behavior.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vinayak Kale <vkale@....com>
> Signed-off-by: Feng Kan <fkan@....com>

Who wrote the patch? According to the SOB chain it's Vinayak, but your
patch is missing the:

From: Vinayak Kale <vkale@....com>

before the actual changelog starts. 
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