[PATCH 2/3] powerpc/powernv: Fix OPAL RTC driver OPAL_BUSY loops

Alexandre Belloni alexandre.belloni at bootlin.com
Wed Apr 25 04:39:18 AEST 2018


On 10/04/2018 23:01:36+1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Apr 2018 14:07:28 +0200
> Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni at bootlin.com> wrote:
> > > Fixes 	 ("powerpc/powernv: Add RTC and NVRAM support plus RTAS fallbacks"
> > > Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
> > > Cc: linux-rtc at vger.kernel.org
> > > Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
> > > ---
> > >  arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-rtc.c |  8 +++--
> > >  drivers/rtc/rtc-opal.c                    | 37 ++++++++++++++---------  
> > 
> > From what I understand, the changes in those files are fairly
> > independent, they should probably be separated to ease merging.
> 
> I'm happy to do that. It's using the same firmware call, so I thought
> a single patch would be fine. But I guess the boot call can be
> dropped from this patch because it does not  not solve the problem
> described in the changelog.
> 
> Would you be happy for the driver change to be merged via the powerpc
> tree? The code being fixed here came from the same original patch as
> a similar issue being fixed in the OPAL NVRAM driver so it might be
> easier that way.
> 

Ok then, just add my

Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni at bootlin.com>

and let it go through the powerpc tree.


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