linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 3/3] arm64: dts: mt7622: Drop the general purpose timer node

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Date:   Sun, 11 Nov 2018 21:45:56 -0500
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To:     Ryder Lee <ryder.lee@...iatek.com>
Cc:     Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
        Weijie Gao <weijie.gao@...iatek.com>,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 3/3] arm64: dts: mt7622: Drop the general purpose
 timer node

On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 09:28:08AM +0800, Ryder Lee wrote:
>The crash http://termbin.com/zitb is caused by the timer register
>into system in early pahse during kernel boot, but the clock
>sources didn't get ready at that time.
>
>A better way is to switch to use CLK_OF_DECLARE() in driver for things
>that need them early, but this node is actually useless in MT7622.
>So we drop it.
>
>Fixes: 9cc7f0de9e67 ("arm64: dts: mt7622: add timer, CCI-400 and PMU nodes")
>Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
>Signed-off-by: Ryder Lee <ryder.lee@...iatek.com>

To confirm: the patch this fixes was added in v4.20-rc1, which means
that this current patch doesn't apply to any of the stable trees.

Did we miss something?

--
Thanks,
Sasha