From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: pavel@ucw.cz (Pavel Machek) Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 12:16:26 +0100 Subject: v4.10-rc4 to v4.10-rc5: battery regression on Nokia N900 In-Reply-To: <9146145b-7e21-c4de-a9cd-dad7bc74ee7a@roeck-us.net> References: <20170124073720.GB5603@amd> <88c94ea6-abe2-0f20-337e-e9ee00c883d8@roeck-us.net> <20170124175800.GA15070@amd> <20170124184526.GA25056@roeck-us.net> <20170125111233.GB3912@amd> <20170125120918.GA7936@pali> <1485481030.2469.15.camel@intel.com> <1485488382.2469.27.camel@intel.com> <9146145b-7e21-c4de-a9cd-dad7bc74ee7a@roeck-us.net> Message-ID: <20170127111626.GB5335@amd> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Hi! > >>That sounds like fun. Changing bq27200-0 to bq27200_0 is Forbidden by > >>the ABI Police, but taking the entire device away is ok. Changing bq27200-0 to bq27200_0 is forbidden in -rc6 time. If you believe noone depends on the name, argue your case, and it might be possible to change it in -rc0. If someone uses the name, they care about the device, and you can't take it away. > >No. IMO, it depends on if the interface is used or not. > >If hwmon I/F is used, we can not take it away, nor change its name. > > Even if the use doesn't depend on that name ? If the use doesn't depend on the name, you may get away with changing the name. (But not in -rc6.) > >If thermal zone I/F is used, we can not change it's 'type' name to be > >compatible with new hwmon API. > > You mean you can not fix the name to be compatible with libsensors. > > Makes me wonder if there shouldn't be a rule that exploits must not > be fixed if already exploited. That is not useful argumentation. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 181 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: