Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Mar 2015 18:01:56 +0000 | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Adjust the return value of _REV on x86 |
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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
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