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From: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
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Subject: Re: [PULL] mtd: nand: Fixes for 4.10-rc3
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On Thu, 5 Jan 2017 10:07:10 -0800
Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 09:15:57PM +0100, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> > Hi Brian,
> > 
> > Here is a fixes PR for 4.10-rc3 (or -rc4 if it's already too late for
> > -rc3).
> > 
> > The xway and oxnas fixes are fixing bugs introduced before 4.10-rc1. I
> > know fixes PRs are supposed to contain only fixes for bugs introduced by
> > code merged during the merge window, but I thought it would be good to
> > have them applied in this release.  
> 
> Actually, I thought all bugfixes are candidates (within reason of
> course) for post-rc1 merging, especially early rc's. I recall Linus
> saying things along the lines of "if it's a candidate for stable, then
> it's a candidate for an -rc" (i.e., don't wait until the next merge
> window).

Okay, good to know.

> 
> These really aren't a big deal anyway.
> 
> > Let me know if this is a problem, and I'll move them to my nand/next and
> > resend of PR.  
> 
> Pushed to linux-mtd.git. Thanks!

Thanks,

Boris

> 
> Brian
> 
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