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On 04/28/2016 03:24 PM, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
>> It's clearly wrong. But the problem is there might be an application that
>> depends on the wrong behavior, the driver has been around for 2.5 years. So
>> it's difficult to fix. We might just go ahead in this case and take the
>> chance that nobody will complain. But if somebody complains this will bring
>> us the wrath of the Linus.
> 
> Not if you put it into next, test it, then into a new release as early as
> possible (for -rc1), clearly document that it's got a user visible change
> that should not matter with instructions if anyone hits this as a
> bisection for their app failing to email so you know and can revert it.

I don't expend application developers to run -rc kernels just to check
whether their application still works. You'd get such a report 6 month after
the kernel has been released once the change has trickled down.