Re: [PATCH V2 2/2] irqchip: gic: preserve gic V2 bypass bits in cpu ctrl register

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Wed Jun 25 2014 - 21:05:44 EST


On Wed, 25 Jun 2014, Feng Kan wrote:

> This change is made to preserve the GIC v2 bypass bits in the
> GIC_CPU_CTRL register (also known as the GICC_CTLR register in spec).
> This code will preserve all bits configured by the bootloader regarding
> v2 bypass group bits. In the X-Gene platform, the bypass functionality
> is not used and bypass bits should not be changed by the kernel gic
> code as it could lead to incorrect behavior.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vinayak Kale <vkale@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Feng Kan <fkan@xxxxxxx>

Who wrote the patch? According to the SOB chain it's Vinayak, but your
patch is missing the:

From: Vinayak Kale <vkale@xxxxxxx>

before the actual changelog starts.
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