Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] ARM: amba: driver_override improvements and fixes

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Wed Apr 25 2018 - 13:27:09 EST


Hi Russell,

(Woops, seems like I forgot to send the email below, while waiting for
a success report for my submission to your patch queue)

On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 12:19 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 03:21:42PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> This patch series contains improvements to driver_override handling in
>> the AMBA bus driver, including two bugfixes that are based on similar
>> fixes for the PCI and platform buses, and which Todd Kjos would like to
>> get into the android common branches to fix possible double free.
>>
>> Changes compared to v1:
>> - RMK stepped down as amba maintainer.
>
> No, in the same way as I haven't stepped down as ARM maintainer.
> I've said that I'm not going to be putting as much effort in as I
> have done, specifically I'm not going to be as active reading the
> mailing lists.

Good to hear that! Thanks for your (continued) work!

> This is the first time I've seen your patches, they look fine to
> me, so please put them in the patch system as normal.

Thanks, done.

>> Geert Uytterhoeven (4):
>> ARM: amba: Make driver_override output consistent with other buses
>> ARM: amba: Fix race condition with driver_override
>> ARM: amba: Don't read past the end of sysfs "driver_override" buffer
>> ARM: amba: Fix wrong indentation in driver_override_store()
>>
>> drivers/amba/bus.c | 21 +++++++++++++--------
>> 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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