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

From: Feng Kan
Date: Thu Jun 26 2014 - 12:48:31 EST


On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 6:05 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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:
I wrote the patch which was based on Vinayak's original change. I can
change it to
Reviewed-by. I was trying to give him credit.

>
> From: Vinayak Kale <vkale@xxxxxxx>
>
> before the actual changelog starts.
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