Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:36:04 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [git pull] Please pull powerpc.git merge branch |
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On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > I'd like to have Andrew or Linus opinion on doing this driver swap that > late in the process.
Quite franklly, no.
If it was a totally _new_ driver, there's no chance of regression, which is why we allow those drivers.
But switching an old one for a new one does not match that pattern. We can clearly get regressions. As such, we don't do it late in the -rc series.
Linus
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