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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] gpio: davinci: fix gpio selection for OF
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Hi Alexander,

On Tuesday 18 March 2014 03:15 PM, Alexander Holler wrote:
> Am 18.03.2014 09:37, schrieb Sekhar Nori:
> 
>> It is safe - at the least it does not break anything that is already
>> working. I guess the decision to put it into -rc depends on whether you
>> consider out of tree dtbs to be a valid usecase for the kernel.
> 
> That's all DT is about, getting rid of the necessity for in-tree
> hw-descriptions. ;)
> 
> But I don't need any rush here, I'm just unable to understand why the
> -rc phase isn't used for bug fixing as I believe that's what this phase
> is for.

The push back you are seeing is because this is pretty late in -rc
cycle. If this push back was not there the bug fix cycle would probably
never close.

In all probability, if this was -rc2 or even -rc3 there would not be so
much discussion.

Thanks,
Sekhar