On Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 5:09 PM, Jérôme de Bretagne
<jerome.debretagne@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Le jeudi 03 novembre 2016 à 16:21 +0200, Heikki Krogerus a écrit :
>> We have a couple of drivers, acpi_apd.c and acpi_lpss.c,
>> that need to pass extra build-in properties to the devices
>> they create. Previously the drivers added those properties
>> to the struct device which is member of the struct
>> acpi_device, but that does not work. Those properties need
>> to be assigned to the struct device of the platform device
>> instead in order for them to become available to the
>> drivers.
>>
>> To fix this, this patch changes acpi_create_platform_device
>> function to take struct property_entry pointer as parameter.
>>
>> Fixes: 20a875e2e86e ("serial: 8250_dw: Add quirk for APM X-Gene SoC")
>> Signed-off-by: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Found the problem, and this is my proposal for a fix.
>>
>> Jérôme, please test it when you have time.
>>
>
> Hi Heikki,
>
> I can confirm that this patch fixes the issue I've reported on the Lenovo
> ThinkPad 8 tablet. You were fast to find the root cause, impressive, really
> appreciated.
>
> Feel free to add:
> Tested-by: Jérôme de Bretagne <jerome.debretagne@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Let's hope it can still make it during the remaining 4.9 rc timing.
It's in my linux-next branch now (it should hit linux-next on Friday)
and I'm going to push it for -rc5 if it doesn't lead to problems.
Thanks,
Rafael
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