linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] rtc: ds1685: use correct device struct to get platform device struct

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Date:   Sat, 13 Apr 2019 01:17:19 -0400
From:   Joshua Kinard <kumba@...too.org>
To:     Thomas Bogendoerfer <tbogendoerfer@...e.de>
Cc:     Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>,
        Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@...ertech.it>,
        linux-rtc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] rtc: ds1685: use correct device struct to get
 platform device struct

On 4/12/2019 07:44, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 12:11:06 +0200
> Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com> wrote:
> 
>> Every patch need a commit message. Maybe you could indicate that this
>> never gave any issue because parent is the first member of struct
>> device.
> 
> I'll update the commit message, I get a nice stacktrace because of that
> bug, so the path from work_queue calling ds1685_rtc_poweroff never worked.
> 
> Thomas.

I'll wager that's why the thing stopped powering off my Octane.  It *used*
to work when I wrote the driver, but stopped after some unidentified point,
and I never found the time to try and track it down.

Which machine are you testing on, out of curiosity?

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