Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Nov 2017 19:00:11 +0000 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.9 43/50] regulator: core: Don't use regulators as supplies until the parent is bound |
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On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 06:19:46PM +0000, Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin) wrote: > On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 10:06:36AM +0200, Mark Brown wrote:
> >In general I would be extremely wary of backporting anything like this > >that affects things like device instantiation ordering, even without any > >knock on bugs directly in the code there's a good chance that someone > >building on stable is going to have some kind of dependency on the > >particular behaviour of the kernel version they're using and changes > >like this could cause updating to the latest stable to introduce > >problems which then discourages people from picking up stable.
> On the other hand, we do want to be "bug compatible" with upstream, > if we force a stable release to behave in a broken way it'll be hard > later to move to a newer stable release.
> I think that we'd rather pull in fixes than avoid breaking broken > behaviors.
We're talking about existing stable releases that people are already using here, if it was .1 or whatever then sure but at .59 it's a bit late to be doing anything that risky. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |