On 04/28/2016 03:24 PM, One Thousand Gnomes wrote: >> It's clearly wrong. But the problem is there might be an application that >> depends on the wrong behavior, the driver has been around for 2.5 years. So >> it's difficult to fix. We might just go ahead in this case and take the >> chance that nobody will complain. But if somebody complains this will bring >> us the wrath of the Linus. > > Not if you put it into next, test it, then into a new release as early as > possible (for -rc1), clearly document that it's got a user visible change > that should not matter with instructions if anyone hits this as a > bisection for their app failing to email so you know and can revert it. I don't expend application developers to run -rc kernels just to check whether their application still works. You'd get such a report 6 month after the kernel has been released once the change has trickled down. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-iio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
