On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 08:31:18AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote: > On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 12:23:21PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > That's concerning - please don't do this. It's not what stable is > > expected to be and there's no guarantee that you're getting all the > > changes required to actually make things work. > How come? This is one of the things stable rules explicitly call for: > "New device IDs and quirks are also accepted". I would expect that to be data only additions, I would not expect that to be adding new code. > If we're missing anything, the solution is to make sure we stop missing > it rather than not take anything to begin with :) It would be much better to not have to watch stable constantly like we currently do - we're seeing people report breakage often enough to be a concern as things are, we don't need to be trying to pile extra stuff in there because there's some keywords in a changelog or whatever. The testing coverage for drivers is weak, increasing the change rate puts more stress on that.
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