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SubjectRe: [PATCH v5] Thermal: introduce INT3406 thermal driver
On 12/11/2014 02:08 PM, Aaron Lu wrote:
> On 12/11/2014 10:37 AM, Zhang Rui wrote:
>> On Wed, 2014-12-10 at 18:15 -0800, Olof Johansson wrote:
>>> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com> wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 11:53:25AM -0800, Olof Johansson wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> [+daniel vetter]
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 9:47 PM, Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com> wrote:
>>>>>> INT3406 ACPI device object resembles an ACPI video output device, but its
>>>>>> _BCM is said to be deprecated and should not be used. So we will make
>>>>>> use of the raw interface to do the actual cooling. Due to this, the
>>>>>> backlight core has some modifications. Also, to re-use some of the ACPI
>>>>>> video module's code, one function has been exported.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>> v5:
>>>>>> Add the missing file drivers/thermal/int340x_thermal/Kconfig
>>>>>> Remove the assignment of .owner field from the device_driver structure
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Did this patch show up in -next for the first time last night, or did
>>>>> some other change break this?
>>>>>
>>>>> It causes a panic in i915 when booting Minnowboard Max for me.
>>>>
>>>> Sorry for the trouble, I'm looking at this now.
>>>> Is there anything special about the Minnowboard Max? I'll try to
>>>> reproduce the issue here locally with a typical Intel desktop.
>>>
>>> Another good question is why the code showed up in -next today. Code
>>> going in for 3.19 is supposed to have been baking there already, and
>>> it's too early to stage anything for 3.20.
>>>
>>> Zhang?
>>
>> well, my Linux machine happened to be broken when I was in travel in Oct
>> and Nov, so that I got the 3.19 material prepared a little late.
>> Thus I just took some fixes and driver specific patches and plan to push
>> my pull request next week.
>> For this one, it had been pushed to linux-next for 3.18, but was dropped
>> because of some Kconfig problem. So I thought it was safe to include
>> this one for 3.19.
>> sorry for bring the trouble here.
>
> It's my bad. In the meantime, I think I have found the problem:
> If the system has a video output device that does not provide a correct
> _BCL, the error path from the newly added code doesn't properly set the
> error return value and that caused problem. The fix is simple:

BTW, this is verified with a laptop that would expose the same call
trace as posted by Olof with the original commit.

Thanks,
Aaron


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