Re: [PATCH 4.19 185/243] ARM: dts: sun8i: a23/a33: Fix up RTC device node

[Chen-Yu Tsai]

On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 10:02 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 02:31:32PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > > The RTC module on the A23 was claimed to be the same as on the A31, when
> > > in fact it is not. The A31 does not have an RTC external clock output,
> > > and its internal RC oscillator's average clock rate is not in the same
> > > range. The A33's RTC is the same as the A23.
> > >
> > > This patch fixes the compatible string and clock properties to conform
> > > to the updated bindings. The register range is also fixed.
> >
> > No, this is not okay for v4.19. New compatible is not in
> > ./drivers/rtc/rtc-sun6i.c, so this will completely break rtc support.
>
> Good catch, I would have thought both of those would happen at the same
> time.

(Fixed Maxime's email)

Neither were marked for stable. I guess Sasha's auto selection bot is at
work here. Is there anything we can do to prevent them from being selected?
For sunxi, we pretty much don't expect things to be backported, unless
something critical was fixed.

Thanks

ChenYu

> Now dropped, thanks.
>
> greg k-h