Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH V3 1/2] ACPI / EC: Fix broken big-endian 64bit platforms using 'global_lock' | Date | Wed, 16 Sep 2015 04:06:07 +0200 |
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On Wednesday, September 16, 2015 03:57:05 AM Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Tuesday, September 15, 2015 02:04:58 PM Viresh Kumar wrote: > > global_lock is defined as an unsigned long and accessing only its lower > > 32 bits from sysfs is incorrect, as we need to consider other 32 bits > > for big endian 64 bit systems. > > > > Fix that by making global_lock an u32 instead. > > > > Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.1+ > > Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> > > > > --- > > Its marked just for # v4.1+, because arm64 has the first 64 big-endian > > platform with ACPI. And ACPI support for that is mainlined recently > > only (Arnd Bergmann). > > OK > > So are you aware of any ARM platform implementing the ACPI EC? > > I am not. Moreover, I'm not aware of any plans in that area.
In any case, please just split the EC-related changes off from your second patch and send them separately.
Thanks, Rafael
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