Regression in next caused by 95026658c46e i2c: do not use internal..
Tony Lindgren
tony at atomide.com
Mon Mar 14 10:26:56 PDT 2016
* Wolfram Sang <wsa at the-dreams.de> [160314 09:52]:
> Hi,
>
> > Having something like this happen just as the merge window opens is
> > not nice. You guys should already know..
>
> I already applied the fix.
OK great thanks!
> > The patches in next should be sitting there for a few weeks before the
> > merge window so issues like this are found out early.
>
> I understand this was a major hickup and I am sorry for this. I should
> have known better.
Thanks for understanding my suffering :) I've been chasing various
regressions constantly over past months.. So I've started to keep my
eye on Linux next hoping to prevent being stuck chasing regressions
forever..
> I am not taking 100% of the blame, though: The amount of submissions is
> rising faster than the amount of non-maintainer review being done (at
> least in the subsystems I work on). I took a wrong step in trying to
> handle the gap. I am really sorry about the fuzz, yet I can't deny there
> is also something inevitable in that to me. That being said, I'll of
> course try harder to not let this happen again.
Yeah the same applies to may subsystems for sure. Probably a good idea
to be extra careful about not causing regressions with core subsystem
changes.
Regards,
Tony
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