linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] Please pull powerpc.git merge branch

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0903110835020.32478@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:36:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
cc:	Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@...ycom.com>,
	linuxppc-dev list <linuxppc-dev@...abs.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@...sony.com>
Subject: Re: [git pull] Please pull powerpc.git merge branch



On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> I'd like to have Andrew or Linus opinion on doing this driver swap that
> late in the process.

Quite franklly, no. 

If it was a totally _new_ driver, there's no chance of regression, which 
is why we allow those drivers.

But switching an old one for a new one does not match that pattern. We can 
clearly get regressions. As such, we don't do it late in the -rc series.

		Linus
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