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

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Wed Apr 25 13:28:27 AEST 2018


Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni at bootlin.com> writes:
> 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.

Thanks.

It's still mostly an rtc patch by lines changed, so I changed the
subject to:

  rtc: opal: Fix OPAL RTC driver OPAL_BUSY loops

cheers


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