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Re: ARM: backporting dreamplug patches for Wheezy



On Mon, 2012-04-09 at 12:45 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-04-08 at 21:17 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Sun, 2012-04-08 at 11:25 +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> > > * Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> [2012-04-08 11:10]:
> > > > These Dreamplug patches add DT support for kirkwood in a way which is
> > > > designed not to interfere with existing non-DT platforms and more
> > > > generally upstream has done things in a way that FDT and ATAG platforms
> > > > can safely be supported using the same kernel image.
> > > 
> > > I'm no longer on the kernel team but fwiw I'm all in favour of these
> > > patches going into the Debian kernel for wheezy (if we can figure out
> > > a solution for the ABI change).
> > 
> > We shouldn't worry too much about ABI changes until shortly before
> > release.
> 
> I suppose we don't want to be bumping it willy-nilly though?

We aren't.

> Would adding some ignores be appropriate in the short term?

I don't think so; some of the changed functions could plausibly be used
by OOT modules.

> Or shall we wait until we are bumping for some other reason?
[...]

Can do.  In which case: apply them, test the result and then comment
them out in series/base with a leading comment that they're to be
enabled at the next ABI bump.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Sturgeon's Law: Ninety percent of everything is crap.

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