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From: Sven Van Asbroeck <thesven73@gmail.com>
To: "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@goldelico.com>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>,
	Discussions about the Letux Kernel 
	<letux-kernel@openphoenux.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] SPI broken for SPI based panel drivers
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2020 09:08:34 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGngYiVU5Udm6zUzrJPNF-V+uchhiv0-tWbUzb+_aSYVF=Dpug@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <460191B6-EDD3-46DE-A1ED-47F758F111E8@goldelico.com>

On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 8:36 AM H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@goldelico.com> wrote:
>
> Well I only complain because you wrote that you knew that it may
> break something else. So it is known to induces a regression.

We knew that it would fix an important, common problem, but
we also knew that there is always a possibility of breaking
something else when making a change to the core.

>
> Maybe printing a "please check your spi setup" in spi_setup() with
> a comment hinting at your patch would have saved me a lot of time.
>

You could ask the maintainer for such a policy, but I fear that soon
the code would emit too many "please check" messages.

>
> Well, I am sort of maintainer of a vendor kernel that tries to
> follow linus/master and fix things before we release an LTS.

Makes sense, I understand your situation better now.

>
> Anyways, there is still time until v5.10.0 to fix it better than by
> a revert.

When we find a fix, it'll have a Fixes: tag, which means it'll
automatically be applied to every supported kernel, including
v5.10 even if already released.

>
> Hope that you have an idea soon. I am happy to test any suggestions/patches/alternatives
> better than a simple revert.
>

Thank you, that's great. I may come back with a few suggestions
for you to test this week.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-01 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-30 19:03 [BUG] SPI broken for SPI based panel drivers H. Nikolaus Schaller
2020-11-30 20:13 ` Sven Van Asbroeck
2020-11-30 20:22   ` Sven Van Asbroeck
2020-12-01  8:59   ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
2020-12-01 12:16     ` Mark Brown
2020-12-01 14:05       ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
2020-12-01 14:20         ` Linus Walleij
2020-12-01 14:34           ` Sven Van Asbroeck
2020-12-01 14:35           ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
2020-12-01 15:52             ` Sven Van Asbroeck
2020-12-01 16:46               ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
2020-12-01 16:10             ` Sven Van Asbroeck
2020-12-01 16:39               ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
2020-12-01 16:53                 ` Sven Van Asbroeck
2020-12-01 17:10                   ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
2020-12-01 18:43                     ` Sven Van Asbroeck
2020-12-02 12:19                       ` Mark Brown
2020-12-04 10:08                       ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
2020-12-04 13:46                         ` Sven Van Asbroeck
2020-12-04 16:49                           ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
2020-12-04 19:19                             ` Sven Van Asbroeck
2020-12-04 21:31                               ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
2020-12-05  0:25                             ` Linus Walleij
2020-12-05  7:04                               ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
2020-12-09  8:04                                 ` Andreas Kemnade
2020-12-09  8:40                                   ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
2020-12-09  8:38                                 ` Linus Walleij
2020-12-09  8:45                                   ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
2020-12-01 22:51                     ` Linus Walleij
2020-12-01 16:44               ` [Letux-kernel] " Andreas Kemnade
2020-12-01 16:51                 ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
2020-12-01 16:52                 ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
2020-12-01 16:55                 ` Sven Van Asbroeck
2020-12-01 16:20           ` Mark Brown
2020-12-01 16:41             ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
2020-12-01 17:11               ` Mark Brown
2020-12-01 12:41     ` Sven Van Asbroeck
2020-12-01 13:32       ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
2020-12-01 14:08         ` Sven Van Asbroeck [this message]
2020-12-01 15:33           ` Mark Brown
2020-12-05 20:57   ` Pavel Machek
2020-12-07 13:43     ` Mark Brown

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