On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 14:23 +0800, Huang Ying wrote:

This patch fixed the following bug.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43282

This is caused by a firmware bug checking (checking generic address
register provided by firmware) in runtime.  The checking should be
done in address mapping time instead of runtime to avoid too much
error reporting in runtime.

Reported-by: Pawel Sikora <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <redacted>
Tested-by: Jean Delvare <redacted>

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This is not the correct way to submit a patch for stable.  See
Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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