linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL v2] MFD: Fixes due for the v3.10 -rc:s

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Date:	Fri, 17 May 2013 10:25:10 +0200
From:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:	Fabio Baltieri <fabio.baltieri@...aro.org>
Cc:	Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>,
	Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...aro.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL v2] MFD: Fixes due for the v3.10 -rc:s

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Fabio Baltieri
<fabio.baltieri@...aro.org> wrote:
> Hello Samuel,
(...)
> The last two:
>
>   mfd: ab8500-sysctrl: Set sysctrl_dev during probe
>   mfd: ab8500-sysctrl: Let sysctrl driver work without pdata
>
> are actually fixes for bugs introduced in this merge window that
> inhibited the ab8500-sysctl driver as a consequence.  Would you
> reconsider pulling just those?

A good way to make sure that patches fixing regressions are applied
to the -rc series is to indicate in the commit message or even the
heading that it fixes a regression.

I usually try to begin such commits with the text:

  this patch fixes a regression caused by change 018745435
  "foo: fix bar"...

Then copying in some crash dump text never hurts :-)

It makes it very easy for us as subsystem maintainers to pick
regression fixes.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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