Re: [git pull] Please pull powerpc.git merge branch

Linus Torvalds
2009-03-11T15:37:48Z

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