From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Mario Limonciello <mario_limonciello@dell.com>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>,
Jason Ekstrand <jason@jlekstrand.net>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Bard Liao <bardliao@realtek.com>,
Liam Girdwood <liam.r.girdwood@linux.intel.com>,
"linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
"lenb@kernel.org" <lenb@kernel.org>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Adjust the return value of _REV on x86
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 18:01:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150324180156.GA14658@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55119D4A.5050809@dell.com>
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 12:22:18PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> At that time rt286 I2S wasn't even in the kernel. Bard didn't start
> to land it until later that year
> (https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/07cf7cbadb4d97a78be61119a406de8fe446467e).
> Was it really that crazy to plan Linux to take HDA mode?
Since we don't expose any way for the platform to detect that it's
running Linux, yes.
> I would like to respectfully ask that this patch not be added to older
> stable kernel versions. It will knowingly cause a regression with
> hardware in the field. If this isn't an appropriate criteria for
> avoiding to backport a patch to stable, what is?
Will it? You haven't shipped the firmware that changes this behaviour
yet.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-24 18:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-12 8:50 [PATCH] ACPI: Adjust the return value of _REV on x86 Matthew Garrett
2015-03-14 19:58 ` Jason Ekstrand
2015-03-16 23:21 ` Jason Ekstrand
2015-03-23 12:04 ` Matt Fleming
2015-03-24 5:50 ` Mario Limonciello
2015-03-24 9:17 ` Liam Girdwood
2015-03-24 14:41 ` Mario Limonciello
2015-03-24 15:24 ` Matt Fleming
2015-03-24 17:22 ` Mario Limonciello
2015-03-24 18:01 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2015-03-24 19:53 ` Mario Limonciello
2015-03-24 20:00 ` Matthew Garrett
2015-03-24 20:02 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2015-03-24 20:21 ` Mario Limonciello
2015-03-16 20:34 ` Al Stone
2015-03-16 21:01 ` Matthew Garrett
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