Re: [PATCH 0/5] Fix various issues with leds-pwm

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On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 02:31:00PM -0700, Bryan Wu wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
>> <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > This patch series fixes various problems with leds-pwm.
>> >
>> > The first patch is very important to solve a boot time oops on OMAP
>> > boards (and probably others) which has recently shown its face.
>> >
>> > The next two clean up leds-pwm so that we can avoid the madness of
>> > having entirely separate initialisation paths for DT and non-DT, which
>> > I believe is the core cause of the initial problem.
>> >
>> > The last two patches add support for LEDs connected in the opposite
>> > sense to PWM outputs, where either the PWM does not support inversion,
>> > or does not support it in a way that works sanely with leds-pwm.  These
>> > add a new property to leds-pwm, hence why that patch (and this cover)
>> > copies the DT people.
>> >
>> > The first patch is an absolute must for going.
>> >
>>
>> Cool, I think Thierry is good for this patchset. I'm going to merge it
>> with Thierry's ack and queue it for 3.16 merge window.
>
> I don't mind the majority of the patch set being queued for the next
> merge window, but I object to the first patch being delayed.  The
> first patch is a very necessary bug fix for a regression that has
> cropped up since -rc7.
>
> It may not be the fault of leds-pwm, but it's leds-pwm which is most
> certainly buggy.  kfree'ing a work_struct which is active is *not*
> on.
>

Sure, actually just after I sent out my previous email, I think I need
add your first patch into my git pull request for 3.15 merge window.
So no worries, I will do that.

Thanks,
-Bryan
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