Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933626AbdCWU3X (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Mar 2017 16:29:23 -0400 Received: from mail-it0-f68.google.com ([209.85.214.68]:34333 "EHLO mail-it0-f68.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932419AbdCWU3W (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Mar 2017 16:29:22 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170323190324.GK9408@haproxy.com> References: <1486391895-9554-1-git-send-email-geert@linux-m68k.org> <20170323171501.GI9408@haproxy.com> <20170323173718.GA9942@haproxy.com> <20170323190324.GK9408@haproxy.com> From: Geert Uytterhoeven Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 21:29:14 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: i4mQTqDviUUCbjGEQJsuY81RFYw Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] Add HD44780 Character LCD support To: Willy TARREAU Cc: Miguel Ojeda Sandonis , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Ksenija Stanojevic , Arnd Bergmann , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1245 Lines: 37 Hi Willy, On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 8:03 PM, Willy TARREAU wrote: > On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 07:49:53PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >> I take it you're using v1 of the patchset? >> >> v2 had this change: >> >> - Move backlight mutex initialization before call to >> charlcd_init_display(), to prevent locking an uninitialized mutex >> (reported by 0day). >> >> https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/3/10/1151 > > Ah yes good point sorry about that. I was surprized that the patches I > applied were that old as I remembered reading about them not that long > ago :-) I have too much stuff in this mailbox... > > Given the few differences, I don't think I need to re-test it. But > just let me know if you need another test. I don't think there's a need to re-test. I did manage to reproduce the original problem when 0day reported it, and verified that it was fixed. Thanks! Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds