[PATCH] ARM: OMAP3+: Fix kernel panic on boot

Jon Hunter jon-hunter at ti.com
Tue Feb 12 11:15:56 EST 2013


On 02/12/2013 04:07 AM, Samuel Ortiz wrote:
> Hi Jon,
> 
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 02:26:19PM -0600, Jon Hunter wrote:
>> Commit 8a6aaa3 (mfd: twl-core: Collect global variables behind one
>> private structure (global)) removed the variable "inuse" that is used
>> to determine if the device has been initialised and now use the
>> twl_priv structure instead. This is causing the kernel to panic on
>> OMAP3+ devices using the twl driver, because we try to access the
>> twl_priv->ready member before checking if twl_priv is initialised. Fix
>> this and move this test to the beginning of the twl_i2c_read/write
>> function because twl_get_last_module() also uses the twl_priv structure.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jon Hunter <jon-hunter at ti.com>
>> Acked-by: Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi at ti.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/mfd/twl-core.c |   16 ++++++++--------
>>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> Patch applied, thanks.
> I fixed the subject as it's codewise not ARM or OMAP3 related, but rather mfd
> and twl-core.

Good point! Thanks Jon



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