This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
Revert "led: core: Fix brightness setting when setting delay_off=0"
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: revert-led-core-fix-brightness-setting-when-setting-delay_off-0.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk Thu Mar 8 09:31:04 2018
From: Ben Hutchings ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2018 15:59:07 +0000 Subject: Revert "led: core: Fix brightness setting when setting delay_off=0" To: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: Jacek Anaszewski jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com, Matthieu CASTET matthieu.castet@parrot.com, stable@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: 20180308155906.5zaldlnuxvxmh2wo@xylophone.i.decadent.org.uk Content-Disposition: inline
From: Ben Hutchings ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk
This reverts commit 20ac8f72514b3af8b62c520d55656ded865eff00, which was commit 2b83ff96f51d0b039c4561b9f95c824d7bddb85c upstream. The bug that it should fix was only introduced in Linux 4.7, and in 4.4 it causes a regression.
Reported-by: Jacek Anaszewski jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com Cc: Matthieu CASTET matthieu.castet@parrot.com Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/leds/led-core.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/leds/led-core.c +++ b/drivers/leds/led-core.c @@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ void led_blink_set(struct led_classdev * unsigned long *delay_on, unsigned long *delay_off) { - led_stop_software_blink(led_cdev); + del_timer_sync(&led_cdev->blink_timer);
led_cdev->flags &= ~LED_BLINK_ONESHOT; led_cdev->flags &= ~LED_BLINK_ONESHOT_STOP;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk are
queue-4.4/x86-spectre-fix-an-error-message.patch queue-4.4/revert-led-core-fix-brightness-setting-when-setting-delay_off-0.patch queue-4.4/x86-apic-vector-handle-legacy-irq-data-correctly.patch