Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Aug 2012 12:28:44 +0100 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/5] mfd: replace IORESOURCE_IO by IORESOURCE_MEM |
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On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 12:13:31PM +0100, Russell King wrote: > On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 11:38:51AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > If nothing else this seems much more suitable for stable and -rc (the > > bug has been there since v3.4).
> There is no need for such hacks.
Please read the text you quoted above.
> There's no need to botch this in any way what so ever, or invent some > other solution only to have to (probably never) rework it.
The changes you're suggesting are extremely invasive for stable especially given that we have a simple, driver local, fix available which is already deployed and used in other drivers in the same kernels (at least in v3.5 anyway, the change introducing the issue got pushed into v3.4 unexpectedly so the fix didn't make it). It would be worrying if such changes were being accepted into stable.
I agree that the changes you're suggeting seem sensible for v3.7 if someone wants to work on them, possibly even v3.6 if people are willing to do something like that after the merge window, but we've got an issue in stable here which is the most urgent thing.
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