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On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 10:06:48AM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 6/14/19 4:53 AM, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > There are kernel subsystems without available QEMU virtual hardware
> > or with special hardware which is not available for most of the active
> > developers. Sometimes bugs in those drivers stop whole subsystem for
> > moving forward and needed to be fixed without HW.
>
> Hi Leon,
>
> Are you perhaps referring to API refactoring that affects an entire
> subsystem? I was referring to patches that affect a single driver.

I got impression that refactoring/cleanup/other_mass_changes are usually
the ones who has potential to introduce regressions and not one shot
change in specific driver from some worried user.

Thanks

>
> Thanks,
>
> Bart.
>