Re: Bad commit backported on the v5.15.y branch ?

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Oct 16 2024 - 10:58:39 EST


On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 01:13:42PM +0000, Joel GUITTET wrote:
> > Because it has a "Fixes:" tag on it.  Is that tag not correct?
>
> understood why it's backported. Probably yes. Or maybe another commit should be introduced to not create a new issue.

Perhaps, but I have no clue what is going on here, sorry.

Is this an issue in Linus's tree? Is it in the other stable releases?
If not, are we missing a change? Or does the issue show up there as
well?

> > What "original message"?
>
> My original message in this mailing list, see below commands that show the problem (last line is wrong):
>
> cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy0/scaling_available_frequencies
> 299999 399999 599999 1199999
>
> echo 399999 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy0/scaling_setspeed
>
> cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy0/scaling_cur_freq
> 399999
>
> cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy0/cpuinfo_cur_freq
> 299999 ====> Should be 399999

Ok, so someone needs to tell me what to do here as I'm confused :)

thanks,

greg k-h