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Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:24:27 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: David Brown <davidb@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH v2] msm: timer: compensate for timer shift in
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On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 04:27:16PM -0700, David Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 20 2011, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 01:55:38PM -0700, Jeff Ohlstein wrote:
> >> Some msm targets have timers whose lower bits are unreliable. So, we
> >> present our timers as lower frequency than they actually are, and ignore
> >> the bottom 5 bits on such targets. This compensation was erroneously
> >> removed from the msm_read_timer_count function, so restore it.
> >> 
> >> This was broken by 94790ec25 "msm: timer: SMP timer support for msm".
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Jeff Ohlstein <johlstei@codeaurora.org>
> >> ---
> >>  arch/arm/mach-msm/timer.c |    6 +++++-
> >>  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >> 
> >
> > <formletter>
> >
> > This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
> > stable kernel tree.  Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
> > for how to do this properly.
> >
> > </formletter>
> 
> I don't think this patch was intended for stable in the first place.
> Jeff, this is a fix for 3.0-rcx, right?

Then why was it sent to stable@kernel.org?

confused,

greg k-h
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