[PATCH 3.10-stable] at91sam9x5 rtc causes damage

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Wed Aug 7 15:34:04 EDT 2013


On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 03:24:39PM -0400, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
> On 13-08-07 03:08 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> >On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 12:49:55PM -0400, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
> >>This one probably needs more sign-offs but some folks seem to be
> >>away. It is pretty simple and fixed in the current lk 3.11.0-rc
> >>series. So it just impacts the lk 3.10 series including lk 3.10.5 .
> >>
> >>ChangeLog:
> >>   - without this patch members of the at91sam9x5 family (e.g.
> >>     at91sam9g25) that use the RTC will receive an unhandled
> >>     interrupt whenever they try to write to the RTC. In the
> >>     case of 9x5 SoCs that is the SYS interrupt shared with
> >>     several other things such as the debug port. Thereafter
> >>     the debug port becomes useless (for input), the RTC doesn't
> >>     work ...
> >>
> >>Signed-off-by: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert at interlog.com>
> >
> ><formletter>
> >
> >This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
> >stable kernel tree.  Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
> >for how to do this properly.
> >
> ></formletter>
> 
> Fine. I'll leave it.

Leave what?  Did you read the above file that shows how to get a patch
into the stable tree?  Follow that and all should be fine.

thanks,

greg k-h



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