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

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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.

Most people are unable to track the various -next trees, therefor many failures only come up when stuff reaches mainline where it might be tested by some more people. And if all bugs found in the -rc phase are fixed in -next only, the -rc phase would be useless.

And it just happened to me too often, that even silly bugfixes (like oneliners) needed between 5 and 9 months to reach a stable kernel and thus users.

Regards,

Alexander Holler
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