Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Jan 2012 08:42:58 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [096/104] rtc: Disable the alarm in the hardware |
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On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 10:27:20AM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Hi Greg, > > Greg KH wrote: > > > 3.1-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > > > ------------------ > > > > From: Rabin Vincent <rabin.vincent@stericsson.com> > > > > commit c0afabd3d553c521e003779c127143ffde55a16f upstream. > > > > Currently, the RTC code does not disable the alarm in the hardware. > > > > This means that after a sequence such as the one below (the files are in the > > RTC sysfs), the box will boot up after 2 minutes even though we've > > asked for the alarm to be turned off. > [...] > > Fix this by disabling the alarm when there are no timers to run. > > Seems to cause a regression. On the affected kernels (e.g., 3.1.5, > 3.1.6, and 3.2-rc7) the patch has exactly the opposite of what you'd > expect --- the affected machines automatically power on a few minutes > after shutdown if and only if the patch is applied. > > The affected machines all seem to be Toshiba Portege laptops. > > Antonio-M. Corbi Bellot: Toshiba Portege R500 > Marco Santos: Toshiba Portege Z830 > Christophe Vu-Brugier: Toshiba Portege R830 > > Christophe tried reverting the above patch and the symptoms went away. > See http://bugs.debian.org/652869 for details. Please consider > reverting the patch from stable until this is resolved.
Is it also reverted (or fixed), in Linus's tree as well?
thanks,
greg k-h
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