On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > There are few places where we are checking for macversion and revsions > before RTC is powered ON. However we are reading the macversion and > revisions only after RTC is powered ON and so both macversion and > revisions are actully zero and this leads to incorrect srev checks. > > fix this by reading the macversion and revisisons even before we start > using them. There is no reason why should we delay reading this info > until RTC is powered on as this is just a register information. > > Cc: Stable Kernel <stable@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@xxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > v2 -- fixed reading revisions unnecessarily during every reset. The description can be extended explaining what specific real life issues this fixes and can help in the evaluation for stable, consider helping to the extend even Andi Kleen can read this and easily decide to either suck this into 2.6.35 longterm or not. To help with this it will help to know what chipsets are affected and so on. I suspect it can say something like: "This fixes programming the hardware incorrectly for x and y chipsets where the wrong chipset was being picked up. Without this those chipsets would be programmed incorrectly and would not be functional" Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
