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 <i...@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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