From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: p.zabel@pengutronix.de (Philipp Zabel) Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 11:03:27 +0200 Subject: [STLinux Kernel] [PATCH 0/7] reset: Consumers to explicitly request 'exclusive' or 'shared' lines In-Reply-To: <20160607092456.GE18047@dell> References: <20160606155655.10860-1-lee.jones@linaro.org> <20160607084208.GB22960@griffinp-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-2nd> <20160607091543.GC18047@dell> <20160607092456.GE18047@dell> Message-ID: <1466067807.3343.12.camel@pengutronix.de> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Hi Lee, Am Dienstag, den 07.06.2016, 10:24 +0100 schrieb Lee Jones: [...] > I guess it should really go into the -rcs, yes. Since Hans' patch > actually breaks a lot of devices. I'm pretty surprised a patch > capable of this much damage was actually accepted to be honest. I wasn't aware there were more drivers already sharing resets, and arguably before Hans' patches this wasn't really supported at all. It only worked by circumstance. > A better approach would have been to issue a warning, but keep the > semantics the same for at least a couple of releases. However, I > guess the damage has been done now, so let's do what we can do fix > it. Agreed. regards Philipp