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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, dsd@laptop.org, stable@kernel.org,
	cjb@laptop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-geode@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH] cs5535-gpio: apply CS5536 errata workaround for GPIOs
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 19:30:07 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101130033007.GB13386@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101129171930.2297083d@queued.net>

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 05:19:30PM -0800, Andres Salomon wrote:
> 
> The AMD Geode CS5536 Companion Device Silicon Revision B1 Specification Update
> mentions the follow as issue #36:
> 
> "Atomic write transactions to the atomic GPIO High Bank Feature Bit registers
> should only affect the bits selected [...]"
> "after Suspend, an atomic write transaction [...] will clear all non-selected
> bits of the accessed register."
> 
> In other words, writing to the high bank for a single GPIO bit will clear
> every other GPIO bit (but only sometimes after a suspend).  The workaround
> described is obvious and simple; do a read-modify-write.  This patch does
> that, and documents why we're doing it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>

Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for how to get patches
into the stable kernel releases (hint, this wasn't the proper way...)

thanks,

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2010-11-30  3:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-30  1:19 Andres Salomon
2010-11-30  3:30 ` Greg KH [this message]

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