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Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:36:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [git pull] Please pull powerpc.git merge branch
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On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> I'd like to have Andrew or Linus opinion on doing this driver swap that
> late in the process.

Quite franklly, no. 

If it was a totally _new_ driver, there's no chance of regression, which 
is why we allow those drivers.

But switching an old one for a new one does not match that pattern. We can 
clearly get regressions. As such, we don't do it late in the -rc series.

		Linus