From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756250AbaCNSde (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Mar 2014 14:33:34 -0400 Received: from h1446028.stratoserver.net ([85.214.92.142]:59573 "EHLO mail.ahsoftware.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755111AbaCNSdc (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Mar 2014 14:33:32 -0400 Message-ID: <53234B68.5090300@ahsoftware.de> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 19:33:12 +0100 From: Alexander Holler User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Walleij CC: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org" , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , "davinci-linux-open-source@linux.davincidsp.com" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , Alexandre Courbot , Grant Likely , Rob Herring , Grygorii Strashko , Sekhar Nori , Prabhakar Lad Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] gpio: davinci: fix gpio selection for OF References: <5316FFCE.1060603@ti.com> <1394018461-757-1-git-send-email-holler@ahsoftware.de> <5322D529.4070904@ahsoftware.de> <5322F82A.9000507@ahsoftware.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am 14.03.2014 14:54, schrieb Linus Walleij: > On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Alexander Holler wrote: > >>> In that case it is hardly a fix that we need to rush out to the entire >>> world. >> >> And I thought the reason for -rc is actually to fix bugs. But I never >> understood the magical ways and timings patches make their way into >> mainline. ;) > > OK so it works like this: early in the -rc cycle we fix any bugs, documentation > or whatever. At this point it's *regressions* so the fix need to fix something > that broke in the merge window (or an earlier merge window). Sorry, but I don't believe that. It's always time to fix regressions and bugs. > If it is a new feature that never worked in the first place I would > not call that > a regression. There are no existing users out there that can experience > regressions from a previously working system. I believe that no (stable) kernel should introduce new known bugs (if fixes are available) and I wouldn't make a difference if it's a new feature or not. Usually people don't care if something is new or not if it has bugs Anyway, I'm just curious and try to understand, I have a fix. ;) Regards, Alexander Holler