Subject: linux-next 2017-08-08 keyboard failure on Nokia N900

From: [email-masked] (Pavel Machek)
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2017 23:44:01 +0200

Hi!

> > > > I've not precisely checked it, but smth is telling me that below
> > > > patch  can cause this:
> > > >
> > > > commit 78daaca78ee57dead0f4aa5ee399f0499e81cd9e
...
> > > >      mfd: twl4030-irq: Drop unnecessary static
> > > >
> > > >      Drop static on a local variable, when the variable is initialized
> > > > before
> > > >      any use, on every possible execution path through the function.
> > > >
> > > > --- a/drivers/mfd/twl4030-irq.c
> > > > +++ b/drivers/mfd/twl4030-irq.c
...
> > > >   int twl4030_init_irq(struct device *dev, int irq_num)
> > > >   {
> > > > -       static struct irq_chip  twl4030_irq_chip;
> > > > +       struct irq_chip twl4030_irq_chip;
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > but if we will look at code - it can be seen that this variable is passed
> > > > by reference to
> > > > irq_set_chip_and_handler().
> > > > Ops. And what will happen when twl4030_init_irq() returns ;)
> > >
> > > The patch is not correct as was already noted when it was submitted:
..
> > Hm. This one is in linux-next, but shouldn't. Right?
> >
> >  git log --oneline  -10 linux-next/master
> > c0b96db Add linux-next specific files for 20170808
> >
> > git log --oneline  linux-next/master | grep "Drop unnecessary static"
> > 78daaca mfd: twl4030-irq: Drop unnecessary static
> 
> OK, it seems like the patch was made twice, the second one was commented
> on and the first one was applied.  78daaca should not be there.

Lee, it has your sign-off, can you drop the patch from your tree? It
is known bad.

Thanks,
								Pavel
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