Re: [PATCH] leds-ot200: Fix error caused by shifted mask

From: Christian Gmeiner
Date: Tue Oct 30 2012 - 15:08:18 EST


2012/10/12 Christian Gmeiner <christian.gmeiner@xxxxxxxxx>:
> 2012/10/1 Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 02:50:40PM +0200, Christian Gmeiner wrote:
>>> During the development of this driver an in-house register
>>> documentation was used. The last weeks some integration tests
>>> were done and this problem was found. It turned out that
>>> the released register documentation is wrong.
>>>
>>> The fix is very simple: shift all mask by one.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Christian Gmeiner <christian.gmeiner@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>> drivers/leds/leds-ot200.c | 14 +++++++-------
>>> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 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>
>
> Thanks... I will inform stable team again if this patch gets into
> mainline - hopefully soon.

Is something missing to get this patch mainline?

thanks
--
Christian Gmeiner, MSc
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