On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 11:53:05AM -0800, Kevin Hilman wrote: > Arnd, Olof, > > These ARM SCPI changes caused SCPI regressions resulting in CPUfreq > failures on most Amlogic SoCs (found by kernelci.org.) > > Unfortunately, this was not caught in linux-next due to other > bugs/panics on these platforms masking this problem so we've only found > it since we've fixed the other issues. > > Since we're already in the -rc cycle, I'd prefer to revert to a known > working state (that of v4.14) rather than finding/reverting a subset, > which would just lead to another untested state. > > These changes can then have some time to be better reviewed and tested > and resubmitted for v4.16. > > I've tested this revert on the affect Amlogic SoCs and verified that > we're back to the previous (working) condition. > > Also, I'm sending the pull directly to arm-soc instead of Sudeeep > because I understand that Sudeep is currently out-of-office and unlikely > to be able to address this himself during the -rc cycle. >
Sounds like the right approach here. I've merged this and added the above text to the merge commit as well. -Olof
