Patches from ARM folks solicited for the -stable tree

[Mark Brown]

On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 02:52:27PM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 10:15:37PM +0000, Paul Walmsley wrote:

> > It's true that the focus here for -stable has mostly been for fixes for 
> > code that causes some kind of crash or failure, rather than new device 
> > support.  Including new device support could probably increase the amount 
> > of -stable patches by quite a bit.  The problem with this is that it could 
> > cause hard-to-find regressions in the -stable kernel.  For example, on 
> > OMAP, adding support for a new device could potentially cause PM 
> > regressions on the rest of the system, depending on how the driver 
> > operates.  So the bar for those types of patches seems pretty high if it's 
> > really intended to be a "stable" kernel.

> Then those "types" of patches are not device ids or quirks being added
> to a table, so of course I wouldn't want to take those into the stable
> tree...

What happens moderately often (not just for OMAP) is that the driver
level change is a stable suitable change by itself but starting to use
the driver can expose a requirement to do additional work on some
existing SoCs to integrate it properly since the driver starts using SoC
integraton that isn't altogether there or correct.
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