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    SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] gpio: davinci: fix gpio selection for OF
    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


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