On Mon, Dec 09, 2019 at 11:31:59PM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
09.12.2019 19:40, Mark Brown пишет:
Why would this need to be a stable fix? Presumably people with stable kernels are using the old device tree anyway?
At least Rob Herring is asking to maintain backwards compatibility because some ditros are using newer device-trees with stable kernels.
You're talking about forwards compatibility not backwards here. Are those distros actually using LTS kernels?
I'm personally also tending to use the newer DTB with older kernel version whenever there is a need to check something using stable kernel. Perhaps losing sound is not very important, but will be nicer if that doesn't happen.
That really does sound like a "you broke it, you get all the pieces" situation TBH... I'd be a lot more comfortable if the stable kernels were sticking to bugfix only though I do appreciate that they're not really that any more.