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From: thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons•com (Thomas Petazzoni)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Revert "bus: mvebu-mbus: make sure SDRAM CS for DMA don't overlap the MBus bridge window"
Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 11:01:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150528110102.10cb2e85@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2099675.EoA8CYtzXr@wuerfel>

Arnd,

On Thu, 28 May 2015 10:49:46 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 28 May 2015 10:40:13 Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> > Fixes: 1737cac69369 ("bus: mvebu-mbus: make sure SDRAM CS for DMA don't overlap the MBus bridge window")
> > Cc: <stable@vger•kernel.org> # v4.0+
> > ---
> >  drivers/bus/mvebu-mbus.c | 105 ++++++++---------------------------------------
> >  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 89 deletions(-)
> 
> Hmm, the stable kernel rules say that a patch cannot exceed 100
> lines with context, so this one is technically too large.

Ah, okay, I didn't know about this specific rule.

> Maybe Greg has a suggestion about what to do here. Is it possible
> to make an exception for a revert? In theory you could make a
> smaller version of the patch that adds an #if 0 instead of removing
> some of the code that was added, in order to get below the limit,
> but that seems counterproductive for minimizing the possible risk.

In the specific case of such an exact revert, isn't it possible to make
an exception? I guess the very reason we have rules is to have
exceptions for such rules, no? :-)

It would really be more logical to have a revert than a different patch
just disabling the change, since it would actually be more risky than
just reverting to the previous situation.

Thanks,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com

  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-28  9:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-28  8:40 [PATCH 0/3] bus: mvebu-mbus: important fixes and improvements Thomas Petazzoni
2015-05-28  8:40 ` [PATCH 1/3] bus: mvebu-mbus: do not set WIN_CTRL_SYNCBARRIER on non io-coherent platforms Thomas Petazzoni
2015-05-28  9:15   ` Gregory CLEMENT
2015-06-02  7:14   ` Ian Campbell
2015-05-28  8:40 ` [PATCH 2/3] Revert "bus: mvebu-mbus: make sure SDRAM CS for DMA don't overlap the MBus bridge window" Thomas Petazzoni
2015-05-28  8:49   ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-05-28  9:01     ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2015-05-28 15:58     ` Greg KH
2015-05-28  9:17   ` Gregory CLEMENT
2015-05-28 15:59     ` Greg KH
2015-05-28  8:40 ` [PATCH 3/3] bus: mvebu-mbus: add mv_mbus_dram_info_nooverlap() Thomas Petazzoni
2015-05-28  8:49   ` Thomas Petazzoni

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