On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 12:45:18PM +0000, Bryan Evenson wrote:
> Greg,
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2014 5:16 PM
> > To: [email protected]; [email protected];
> > [email protected]; Bryan Evenson; [email protected];
> > [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected];
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> > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]
> > Subject: Patch "rtc: rtc-at91rm9200: fix infinite wait for ACKUPD irq" has 
> > been
> > added to the 3.10-stable tree
> > 
> > 
> > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> > 
> >     rtc: rtc-at91rm9200: fix infinite wait for ACKUPD irq
> > 
> > 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:
> >      rtc-rtc-at91rm9200-fix-infinite-wait-for-ackupd-irq.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.
> 
> This patch should be added to the stable tree, but in my testing it needs an 
> additional patch to avoid causing a different problem.  This patch does fix 
> the stated problem, but in my testing on an AT91SAM9G25 platform the system 
> would not boot up after a power cycle if the RTC backup battery was in place. 
>  This second patch is needed to fix the second issue:
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?id=9dcc87fec8947308e0111c65dcd881e6aa5b1673
> 
> I had seen the failure to boot happen rarely in the past, but after applying 
> the "rtc: rtc-at91rm9200: fix infinite wait for ACKUPD irq" patch the failure 
> to boot from power cycle was happening every time on my system.  I then 
> applied the second patch I linked to above and my system would then boot up 
> after a power cycle without issue every time.  So I would suggest only 
> applying this patch to 3.10-stable, 3.14-stable and 3.15-stable if the "ARM: 
> at91: fix at91_sysirq_mask_rtc for sam9x5 SoCs" patch linked to above is 
> applied in the same series.

Thanks, I've applied the above patch to the tree as well.

greg k-h
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