[BISECTED] Nokia 770 framebuffer breakage

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Tue Oct 20 09:28:00 PDT 2015


On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 07:14:28PM +0300, Aaro Koskinen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 05:05:24PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 10:07:00AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > > 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?
> > 
> > Also make that reported-by as well.
> > 
> > I'll hold the patch back pending a reply...
> 
> Yes, both or either are fine.

Thanks, queued for 4.3 and stable.

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