James Bottomley wrote:
I'm arguing that a too strict an interpretation of bugfix only post -rc1
will damage feature stabilisation. Please think carefully about this.
If we go out in a released kernel with a problematic user space ABI, we
end up being committed to it forever.
IMO you're going off on your own tangent. Linus never singled out bsg
(far from it, in fact, since bsg was not a major LOC contributor) or
declared ABI-related fixes verboten.
I don't think anyone wants to release a userspace ABI with problems,
since we all know that's basically locked in stone once its in a
mainline release.
AFAICS his main complaint was he felt your push was a big honking huge
change, late in the game, that included obvious non-fixes. And it was.
lpfc was probably the biggest part of that, not bsg, and it's pretty
clear such a big lpfc update should have gone in when the merge window
was open. The [non-lpfc] cleanups were also not -rc2 material.
Jeff
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