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    SubjectRe: [096/104] rtc: Disable the alarm in the hardware
    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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