[PATCH resend] extcon: Fix attached value returned by is_extcon_changed

Hans de Goede hdegoede at redhat.com
Tue Sep 22 00:12:42 PDT 2015


Hi,

On 22-09-15 03:44, Chanwoo Choi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2015년 09월 21일 20:29, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 21-09-15 03:36, Chanwoo Choi wrote:
>>> On 2015년 09월 20일 21:34, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>>> is_extcon_changed should only check the idx-th bit of new, not
>>>> the entirety of new when setting attached.
>>>>
>>>> This fixes extcon sending notifications that a cable was inserted when
>>>> it gets removed while another cable is still connected.
>>>>
>>>> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
>>>> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>    drivers/extcon/extcon.c | 2 +-
>>>>    1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/extcon/extcon.c b/drivers/extcon/extcon.c
>>>> index a07addd..8dd0af1 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/extcon/extcon.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/extcon/extcon.c
>>>> @@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ static int find_cable_index_by_name(struct extcon_dev *edev, const char *name)
>>>>    static bool is_extcon_changed(u32 prev, u32 new, int idx, bool *attached)
>>>>    {
>>>>        if (((prev >> idx) & 0x1) != ((new >> idx) & 0x1)) {
>>>> -        *attached = new ? true : false;
>>>> +        *attached = ((new >> idx) & 0x1) ? true : false;
>>>>            return true;
>>>>        }
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> This patch was already applied[1].
>>> [1] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/chanwoo/extcon.git/log/?h=extcon-next
>>
>> Yet it is not in 4.3-rc1, applying the patch to your tree is not useful
>> unless you also send a pull-req to get the changes in your tree actually
>> merged ...
>
> No. It is useful step. It is first step to send pull-request for including the main tree.
> I'll send pull-request before releasing official version.

This patch fixes a bug in the extcon core, thus affecting ALL extcon users, the patch
is trivial, so IMHO this patch should have been part of a pull-req already, adn should
be Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org. When you do you plan to submit a pullreq with this
patch ?

Regards,

Hans



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