On Wed, 8 May 2013, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Wednesday 08 May 2013, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 04:53:52PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote: > > > From: Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> > > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > So this needs to go in for 3.10, right? Any older kernels as well? If > > so, which ones? > > The fix should definitely go into 3.10, but I'd suggest waiting with > the backport for a couple of -rc releases to avoid possible regressions. > We know that the current code is broken, but few people fully understand > what is going on with coherent_dma_mask, so it might cause new problems > in combination with some other unknown bug, and I don't see this as > urgent: none of the ARM defconfigs build this driver as a loadable > module and there is no bug in the built-in case. For some reason, only > the ARM back-end drivers are broken. > > The first occurence was apparently in 3.3, but only in ehci-tegra.c, > while the other drivers subsequently copied the bug. An alternative solution -- perhaps not better but also not relying on coherent_dma_mask -- is to clear pdev->dev.dma_mask in the remove routine if it points to the static mask value. Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
