From: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Cc: "Crestez Dan Leonard" <leonard.crestez@intel.com>,
"Daniel Baluta" <daniel.baluta@gmail.com>,
"Yong Li" <sdliyong@gmail.com>,
"Jonathan Cameron" <jic23@kernel.org>,
"Hartmut Knaack" <knaack.h@gmx.de>,
"Peter Meerwald-Stadler" <pmeerw@pmeerw.net>,
"Krzysztof Kozłowski" <k.kozlowski@samsung.com>,
"Matt Ranostaj" <mranostay@gmail.com>,
"linux-iio@vger.kernel.org" <linux-iio@vger.kernel.org>,
"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iio: tmp006: Set correct iio name
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 14:24:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160428142458.09e498e2@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5721C904.3010505@metafoo.de>
> 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.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-28 13:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-22 3:43 [PATCH] iio: tmp006: Set correct iio name Yong Li
2016-04-25 19:33 ` Jonathan Cameron
2016-04-25 20:59 ` Crestez Dan Leonard
2016-04-25 21:11 ` Jonathan Cameron
2016-04-26 10:57 ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2016-04-26 11:47 ` Yong Li
2016-04-26 12:01 ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2016-04-26 13:14 ` Yong Li
2016-04-26 15:21 ` Daniel Baluta
2016-04-27 3:42 ` Yong Li
2016-04-27 16:58 ` Crestez Dan Leonard
2016-04-28 8:25 ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2016-04-28 13:24 ` One Thousand Gnomes [this message]
2016-04-28 13:30 ` Peter Meerwald-Stadler
2016-04-28 14:19 ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2016-05-01 19:34 ` Jonathan Cameron
2016-05-03 9:43 ` [was iio: tmp006: Set correct iio name] how to support multiple instances of same device type Gregor Boirie
2016-05-03 12:00 ` Crestez Dan Leonard
2016-04-28 14:17 ` [PATCH] iio: tmp006: Set correct iio name Lars-Peter Clausen
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