linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] backlight: as3711

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Date:   Wed, 29 Nov 2017 11:28:54 +0000
From:   Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
To:     Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
Cc:     Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>,
        Jingoo Han <jingoohan1@...il.com>,
        Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
        Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@....de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] backlight: as3711_bl: fix device-tree node lookup

On Mon, 20 Nov 2017, Johan Hovold wrote:

> Fix child-node lookup during probe, which ended up searching the whole
> device tree depth-first starting at the parent rather than just matching
> on its children.
> 
> To make things worse, the parent mfd node was also prematurely freed.
> 
> Fixes: 59eb2b5e57ea ("drivers/video/backlight/as3711_bl.c: add OF support")
> Cc: stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>     # 3.10
> Cc: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@....de>
> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
> ---
>  drivers/video/backlight/as3711_bl.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++----------
>  1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks.

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Lee Jones
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