On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 08:07:58AM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> > It shouldn't be hard to figure out if a patch should be in stable or >> > not... >> >> Well with the only caveat now that I am suggesting we consider remove >> this logic completely as only 2 drivers were using it explicitly >> (second argument to request_firmware_nowait() set to false), it seems >> they had good reasons for it but ... this has been broken for ages and >> we seem to be happy to compartamentalize the UMH further, its unclear >> why we would want to expand and "fix" that instead of just removing >> crap that never worked. Thoughts? > > Why would you want to remove stuff that works and people rely on? Don't > be foolish, you know we can't do that...
I was not advocating removing it if it had worked, I advocated removing it if it truly was something that never worked. Luis
