> I added Meelis on Cc because he found a regression with my original > proposal (107a84e61cdd "of: match by compatible property first"). That > got later reverted in commit bc51b0c22ceb (Revert "of: match by > compatible property first"). Here's the commit message for reference: > > commit bc51b0c22ceb > Author: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> > Date: Tue Jul 10 12:49:32 2012 -0700 > > Revert "of: match by compatible property first" > > This reverts commit 107a84e61cdd3406c842a0e4be7efffd3a05dba6. > > Meelis Roos reports a regression since 3.5-rc5 that stops Sun Fire V100 > and Sun Netra X1 sparc64 machines from booting, hanging after enabling > serial console. He bisected it to commit 107a84e61cdd. > > Rob Herring explains: > "The problem is match combinations of compatible plus name and/or type > fail to match correctly. I have a fix for this, but given how late it > is for 3.5 I think it is best to revert this for now. There could be > other cases that rely on the current although wrong behavior. I will > post an updated version for 3.6." > > Bisected-and-reported-by: Meelis Roos <mr...@linux.ee> > Requested-by: Rob Herring <rob.herr...@calxeda.com> > Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.red...@avionic-design.de> > Cc: Grant Likely <grant.lik...@secretlab.ca> > Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> > > So if Meelis still has access to the Sun Fire V100 and Sun Netra X1 > machines that regressed last time around, it'd be great to get this > patch tested on them to verify that it indeed fixes the problem and > doesn't regress.
OK, I had forgotten about that. Tested successfully on the same Sun Fire V100 and Sun Netra X1, on top of 3.13-rc2. The sunsu console is detected fine and I see no problem for now. -- Meelis Roos (mr...@linux.ee) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
