[BISECTED] Nokia 770 framebuffer breakage

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Tue Oct 20 02:07:00 PDT 2015


On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 11:50:03AM +0300, Aaro Koskinen wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 11:50:33PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > It shouldn't (I've been through the resulting assembly code.)  I wonder
> > if this is fixing the problem, but it's now failing elsewhere instead.
> > 
> > What happens if you change it to:
> > 
> > 	l = clkdev_create(r, alias, alias_dev_name);
> > 
> > which should be 100% identical to how older kernels behaved
> 
> Ok, this and the earlier patch works on top of
> 2568999835d7797afce3dcc3a3f368051ffcaf1f, but not on 4.2 or newer - so
> it fixes the clk_add_alias issue, and newer kernels have other issues...

Thanks, so this fixes the regression you were seeing with the above
mentioned commit, so I'll get that into mainline and stable kernels.

Can I add a tested-by tag for it please?

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