From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
To: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>,
ksummit <ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Pull network and Patch Acceptance Consistency
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2019 10:20:14 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190615072014.GC4694@mtr-leonro.mtl.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13cd6900-a2ae-408e-ee96-2372b9f49866@acm.org>
On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 10:06:48AM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 6/14/19 4:53 AM, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > There are kernel subsystems without available QEMU virtual hardware
> > or with special hardware which is not available for most of the active
> > developers. Sometimes bugs in those drivers stop whole subsystem for
> > moving forward and needed to be fixed without HW.
>
> Hi Leon,
>
> Are you perhaps referring to API refactoring that affects an entire
> subsystem? I was referring to patches that affect a single driver.
I got impression that refactoring/cleanup/other_mass_changes are usually
the ones who has potential to introduce regressions and not one shot
change in specific driver from some worried user.
Thanks
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bart.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-15 7:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-06 15:48 [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Pull network and Patch Acceptance Consistency James Bottomley
2019-06-06 15:58 ` Greg KH
2019-06-06 16:24 ` James Bottomley
2019-06-13 13:59 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-06-14 10:12 ` Laurent Pinchart
2019-06-14 13:24 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-06-14 13:31 ` Laurent Pinchart
2019-06-14 13:54 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-06-14 14:08 ` Laurent Pinchart
2019-06-14 14:56 ` Mark Brown
2019-06-14 13:58 ` Greg KH
2019-06-14 15:11 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-06-14 15:23 ` James Bottomley
2019-06-14 15:43 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-06-14 15:49 ` James Bottomley
2019-06-14 16:04 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-06-14 16:16 ` James Bottomley
2019-06-14 17:48 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-06-17 7:01 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-06-17 13:31 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-06-17 14:26 ` Takashi Iwai
2019-06-19 7:53 ` Dan Carpenter
2019-06-19 8:13 ` [Ksummit-discuss] [kbuild] " Philip Li
2019-06-19 8:33 ` [Ksummit-discuss] " Daniel Vetter
2019-06-19 14:39 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-06-19 14:48 ` [Ksummit-discuss] [media-submaintainers] " Laurent Pinchart
2019-06-19 15:19 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-06-19 15:46 ` James Bottomley
2019-06-19 16:23 ` Mark Brown
2019-06-20 12:24 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-06-20 10:36 ` Jani Nikula
2019-06-19 15:56 ` Mark Brown
2019-06-19 16:09 ` Laurent Pinchart
2019-06-15 10:55 ` [Ksummit-discuss] " Daniel Vetter
2019-06-14 20:52 ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-06-15 11:01 ` Laurent Pinchart
2019-06-17 11:03 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-06-17 12:28 ` Mark Brown
2019-06-17 16:48 ` Tim.Bird
2019-06-17 17:23 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-06-17 23:13 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-06-17 14:18 ` Laurent Pinchart
2019-06-06 16:29 ` James Bottomley
2019-06-06 18:26 ` Dan Williams
2019-06-07 20:14 ` Martin K. Petersen
2019-06-13 13:49 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-06-13 14:35 ` James Bottomley
2019-06-13 15:03 ` Martin K. Petersen
2019-06-13 15:21 ` Bart Van Assche
2019-06-13 15:27 ` James Bottomley
2019-06-13 15:35 ` Guenter Roeck
2019-06-13 15:39 ` Bart Van Assche
2019-06-14 11:53 ` Leon Romanovsky
2019-06-14 17:06 ` Bart Van Assche
2019-06-15 7:20 ` Leon Romanovsky [this message]
2019-06-13 15:39 ` James Bottomley
2019-06-13 15:42 ` Takashi Iwai
2019-06-13 19:28 ` James Bottomley
2019-06-14 9:08 ` Dan Carpenter
2019-06-14 9:43 ` Dan Carpenter
2019-06-14 13:27 ` Dan Carpenter
2019-06-13 17:27 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-06-13 18:41 ` James Bottomley
2019-06-13 19:11 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-06-13 19:20 ` Joe Perches
2019-06-14 2:21 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-06-13 19:57 ` Martin K. Petersen
2019-06-13 14:53 ` Martin K. Petersen
2019-06-13 17:09 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-06-14 3:03 ` Martin K. Petersen
2019-06-14 3:35 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-06-14 7:31 ` Joe Perches
2019-06-13 13:28 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-06-06 16:18 ` Bart Van Assche
2019-06-14 19:53 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2019-06-14 23:21 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2019-06-17 10:35 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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