linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] omap fixes for v2.6.34-rc5

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Message-ID: <20100427161217.GB7225@atomide.com>
Date:	Tue, 27 Apr 2010 09:12:17 -0700
From:	Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-omap@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] omap fixes for v2.6.34-rc5

* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> [100427 08:28]:
> 
> On Mon, 26 Apr 2010, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > 
> > Please pull omap fixes from:
> > 
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-2.6.git omap-fixes-for-linus
> 
> I pulled it this time, but I'm starting to get really irritated with you.
> 
> These look like real fixes, but quite frankly, by -rc5, that IS NOT 
> ENOUGH. 
> 
> They need to be _regressions_, not just cleanups and fixes for things that 
> have never worked. And this is starting to be a pattern with the omap 
> tree: you're not honoring the merge window properly.
> 
> Just "it's a bug-fix" or "it's deleting unused code" is not enough. The 
> point of the late -rc series is to fix problems from the merge window, not 
> add new changes. I realize that you think that all the new changes are 
> obviously good, but the fact is, bugs happen even in "obvious bug-fixes". 
> 
> And that's why we have the rule about late-rc pulls being about 
> _regressions_ and/or major oopses/security issues. Not just random 
> development that are meant to improve things.

OK point taken. I should have dealt with this earlier. Will only queue
regressions after -rc3 or so.

Regards,

Tony
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