[PATCH] mfd: vexpress-sysreg: Remove LEDs code
Pawel Moll
pawel.moll at arm.com
Wed Nov 28 06:38:51 EST 2012
On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 18:00 +0000, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 11/21/2012 02:04 AM, Olof Johansson wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:55 AM, Olof Johansson <olof at lixom.net> wrote:
> >> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 01:39:04PM +0000, Pawel Moll wrote:
> >>> As the current LEDs code breaks other platform, remove it.
> >>>
> >>> It shall be replaced by a generic "MMIO LEDs" driver.
> >>>
> >>> Reported-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll at arm.com>
> >>> ---
> >>> drivers/mfd/vexpress-sysreg.c | 77 -----------------------------------------
> >>> 1 file changed, 77 deletions(-)
> >>>
> >>> Hi Arnd,
> >>>
> >>> As I haven't managed to get any feedback on the generic MMIO
> >>> LEDs driver so far, I have to postpone it till next cycle and
> >>> completely remove the LED-related code from the vexpress-sysreg
> >>> driver, as it breaks other platforms today.
> >>>
> >>> Would you be so kind to apply this patch, please? Alternatively
> >>> you can pull it from here:
> >>>
> >>> git://git.linaro.org/people/pawelmoll/linux.git vexpress-soc2
> >>>
> >>> (this branch is based on the vexpress-soc you already have)
> >>
> >> Applied the patch on top of vexpress/soc, and merged in that branch into
> >> next/soc again (it had been reverted due to the issues)
> >
> > Actually, I replaced our current vexpress/soc with the latest one you
> > had sent a pull request from before, since it had the appropriate
> > dependencies with the clock tree sorted out
> > (git://git.linaro.org/people/pawelmoll/linux.git vexpress-clk-soc).
>
> In next-20121127, I still see that drivers/mfd/vexpress-sysreg.c has the
> following code:
>
> > static int __init vexpress_sysreg_init_leds(void)
> > {
> > struct vexpress_sysreg_led *led;
> > int i;
> >
> > /* Clear all user LEDs */
> > writel(0, vexpress_sysreg_base + SYS_LED);
> ...
> > }
> > device_initcall(vexpress_sysreg_init_leds);
>
> ... and on systems where vexpress_sysreg_base is not set, this crashes
> the kernel on boot.
>
> Shouldn't the patch "mfd: vexpress-sysreg: Remove LEDs code" be applied
> to solve this?
By all means... I had an impression that Olof re-pulled the
vexpress-soc2 branch which has it, but apparently not.
Olof, would you be so kind to apply the patch then?
Cheers!
Paweł
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