This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
drivers/platform/olpc/olpc-ec.c: initialise earlier
to the 3.10-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
drivers-platform-olpc-olpc-ec.c-initialise-earlier.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 93dbc1b3b506e16c1f6d5b5dcfe756a85cb1dc58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Drake <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 16:35:43 -0700
Subject: drivers/platform/olpc/olpc-ec.c: initialise earlier
From: Daniel Drake <[email protected]>
commit 93dbc1b3b506e16c1f6d5b5dcfe756a85cb1dc58 upstream.
Being a low-level component, various drivers (e.g. olpc-battery) assume
that it is ok to communicate with the OLPC Embedded Controller during
probe. Therefore the OLPC EC driver must be initialised before other
drivers try to use it. This was the case until it was recently moved
out of arch/x86 and restructured around commits ac2504151f5a ("Platform:
OLPC: turn EC driver into a platform_driver") and 85f90cf6ca56 ("x86:
OLPC: switch over to using new EC driver on x86").
Use arch_initcall so that olpc-ec is readied earlier, matching the
previous behaviour.
Fixes a regression introduced in Linux-3.6 where various drivers such as
olpc-battery and olpc-xo1-sci failed to load due to an inability to
communicate with the EC. The user-visible effect was a lack of battery
monitoring, missing ebook/lid switch input devices, etc.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <[email protected]>
Cc: Andres Salomon <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Fox <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/platform/olpc/olpc-ec.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/platform/olpc/olpc-ec.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/olpc/olpc-ec.c
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ static int __init olpc_ec_init_module(vo
return platform_driver_register(&olpc_ec_plat_driver);
}
-module_init(olpc_ec_init_module);
+arch_initcall(olpc_ec_init_module);
MODULE_AUTHOR("Andres Salomon <[email protected]>");
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.10/x86-don-t-clear-olpc_ofw_header-when-sentinel-is-detected.patch
queue-3.10/drivers-platform-olpc-olpc-ec.c-initialise-earlier.patch
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