From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexander Holler Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] gpio: davinci: fix gpio selection for OF Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 10:45:12 +0100 Message-ID: <532815A8.9090807@ahsoftware.de> References: <5316FFCE.1060603@ti.com> <1394018461-757-1-git-send-email-holler@ahsoftware.de> <5322D529.4070904@ahsoftware.de> <5326F8C5.5090406@ti.com> <532805AE.9000806@ti.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <532805AE.9000806-l0cyMroinI0@public.gmane.org> Sender: devicetree-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Sekhar Nori , Linus Walleij Cc: "devicetree-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "davinci-linux-open-source-VycZQUHpC/PFrsHnngEfi1aTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org" , Grygorii Strashko , Alexandre Courbot , "linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "linux-gpio-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , Prabhakar Lad , Rob Herring , Grant Likely , "linux-arm-kernel-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org" List-Id: linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org Am 18.03.2014 09:37, schrieb Sekhar Nori: > It is safe - at the least it does not break anything that is already > working. I guess the decision to put it into -rc depends on whether you > consider out of tree dtbs to be a valid usecase for the kernel. That's all DT is about, getting rid of the necessity for in-tree hw-descriptions. ;) But I don't need any rush here, I'm just unable to understand why the -rc phase isn't used for bug fixing as I believe that's what this phase is for. Most people are unable to track the various -next trees, therefor many failures only come up when stuff reaches mainline where it might be tested by some more people. And if all bugs found in the -rc phase are fixed in -next only, the -rc phase would be useless. And it just happened to me too often, that even silly bugfixes (like oneliners) needed between 5 and 9 months to reach a stable kernel and thus users. Regards, Alexander Holler -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html