This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled staging: comedi: ni_mio_common: fix AO timer off-by-one regression to the 4.12-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: staging-comedi-ni_mio_common-fix-ao-timer-off-by-one-regression.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.12 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 15d5193104a457d5151840247e3bce561c42e3e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Abbott <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 12:02:18 +0100 Subject: staging: comedi: ni_mio_common: fix AO timer off-by-one regression MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Ian Abbott <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx> commit 15d5193104a457d5151840247e3bce561c42e3e9 upstream. As reported by Éric Piel on the Comedi mailing list (see <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comedi_list/ueZiR7vTLOU/discussion>), the analog output asynchronous commands are running too fast with a period 50 ns shorter than it should be. This affects all boards with AO command support that are supported by the "ni_pcimio", "ni_atmio", and "ni_mio_cs" drivers. This is a regression bug introduced by commit 080e6795cba3 ("staging: comedi: ni_mio_common: Cleans up/clarifies ni_ao_cmd"), specifically, this line in `ni_ao_cmd_set_update()`: /* following line: N-1 per STC */ ni_stc_writel(dev, trigvar - 1, NISTC_AO_UI_LOADA_REG); The `trigvar` variable value comes from a call to `ni_ns_to_timer()` which converts a timer period in nanoseconds to a hardware divisor value. The function already reduces the divisor by 1 as required by the hardware, so the above line should not reduce it further by 1. Fix it by replacing `trigvar` by `trigvar - 1` in the above line, and remove the misleading comment. Reported-by: Éric Piel <piel@xxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 080e6795cba3 ("staging: comedi: ni_mio_common: Cleans up/clarifies ni_ao_cmd") Cc: Éric Piel <piel@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Spencer E. Olson <olsonse@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_mio_common.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_mio_common.c +++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_mio_common.c @@ -3116,8 +3116,7 @@ static void ni_ao_cmd_set_update(struct /* following line: 2-1 per STC */ ni_stc_writel(dev, 1, NISTC_AO_UI_LOADA_REG); ni_stc_writew(dev, NISTC_AO_CMD1_UI_LOAD, NISTC_AO_CMD1_REG); - /* following line: N-1 per STC */ - ni_stc_writel(dev, trigvar - 1, NISTC_AO_UI_LOADA_REG); + ni_stc_writel(dev, trigvar, NISTC_AO_UI_LOADA_REG); } else { /* TRIG_EXT */ /* FIXME: assert scan_begin_arg != 0, ret failure otherwise */ devpriv->ao_cmd2 |= NISTC_AO_CMD2_BC_GATE_ENA; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from abbotti@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.12/staging-comedi-ni_mio_common-fix-ao-timer-off-by-one-regression.patch