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From: Francesco Dolcini <francesco@dolcini.it>
To: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
Cc: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>,
	Francesco Dolcini <francesco@dolcini.it>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
	Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@ti.com>,
	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
	Francesco Dolcini <francesco.dolcini@toradex.com>,
	Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
	u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] mtd: parsers: ofpart: Fix parsing when size-cells is 0
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 08:52:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y5wj0BHKBYvNRFFK@francesco-nb.int.toradex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a54bf573-c14a-a546-10fc-e50274986ff5@denx.de>

On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 01:36:03AM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On 12/15/22 09:04, Miquel Raynal wrote:
> > > > That would fix all cases and only have an impact on the affected
> > > > boards.
> > > 
> > > Sadly, it does only fix the known cases, not the unknown cases
> > > like downstream forks which never get any bootloader updates ever,
> > > and which you can't find in upstream U-Boot, and which you
> > > therefore cannot easily catch in the arch side fixup.
> > 
> > And ?
> 
> I was under the impression Linux was supposed to deliver the best possible
> experience to its users even on not-perfect hardware, and if there are any
> quirks, the kernel should try to fix them up or work around them as best as
> it can, not dismiss them as broken hardware and fail to boot outright.

I would say something more on this.

We are not talking about Linux not working well on some hardware, we are
talking about breaking hardware that was working fine since ever.
I believe that the Linux has a quite strong point of view on such kind
of regression.

Quoting Linus
> If the kernel used to work for you, the rule is that it continues to work for you.

Francesco


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Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-02  7:19 [PATCH v1] mtd: parsers: ofpart: Fix parsing when size-cells is 0 Francesco Dolcini
2022-12-02  9:14 ` Miquel Raynal
2022-12-02 10:12   ` Francesco Dolcini
2022-12-02 10:24     ` Francesco Dolcini
2022-12-02 10:53       ` Miquel Raynal
2022-12-02 11:23         ` Francesco Dolcini
2022-12-02 14:05           ` Miquel Raynal
2022-12-02 14:31             ` Marek Vasut
2022-12-02 15:00               ` Miquel Raynal
2022-12-02 15:23                 ` Marek Vasut
2022-12-02 15:49                   ` Miquel Raynal
2022-12-02 16:01                     ` Miquel Raynal
2022-12-02 16:17                     ` Marek Vasut
2022-12-02 16:42                       ` Miquel Raynal
2022-12-02 16:52                         ` Marek Vasut
2022-12-02 16:57                           ` Miquel Raynal
2022-12-02 17:08                             ` Marek Vasut
2022-12-05 11:26                               ` Francesco Dolcini
2022-12-05 13:49                                 ` Miquel Raynal
2022-12-05 16:25                                   ` Marek Vasut
2022-12-15  7:16                                     ` Miquel Raynal
2022-12-15  7:45                                       ` Marek Vasut
2022-12-15  8:04                                         ` Miquel Raynal
2022-12-16  0:36                                           ` Marek Vasut
2022-12-16  7:52                                             ` Francesco Dolcini [this message]
2022-12-16  7:45                                       ` Francesco Dolcini
2022-12-16 10:46                                         ` Marek Vasut
2022-12-16 11:01                                           ` Miquel Raynal
2022-12-16 12:37                                             ` Francesco Dolcini
2022-12-16 13:37                                               ` Miquel Raynal
2022-12-16 14:32                                                 ` Marek Vasut
2022-12-16 15:35                                                   ` Miquel Raynal
2022-12-16 16:30                                                     ` Francesco Dolcini
2023-01-02  9:40                                                       ` Miquel Raynal
2023-01-05 11:33                                                         ` Miquel Raynal
2023-01-05 12:47                                                           ` Francesco Dolcini
2023-01-05 14:51                                                             ` Marek Vasut
2023-01-05 15:03                                                               ` Miquel Raynal
2022-12-02 17:20                         ` Francesco Dolcini
2022-12-05 11:30                           ` Francesco Dolcini
2022-12-05 15:28                             ` Miquel Raynal
2022-12-02 16:45                       ` Francesco Dolcini
2022-12-02 17:05                         ` Miquel Raynal
2022-12-02 15:56               ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2022-12-04 12:50                 ` Marek Vasut
2022-12-04 12:59                   ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2022-12-04 15:50                     ` Marek Vasut
2022-12-02 12:43 ` Greg KH

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