On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 10:25:10AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote: > On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Fabio Baltieri > <fabio.balti...@linaro.org> wrote: > > Hello Samuel, > (...) > > The last two: > > > > mfd: ab8500-sysctrl: Set sysctrl_dev during probe > > mfd: ab8500-sysctrl: Let sysctrl driver work without pdata > > > > are actually fixes for bugs introduced in this merge window that > > inhibited the ab8500-sysctl driver as a consequence. Would you > > reconsider pulling just those? > > A good way to make sure that patches fixing regressions are applied > to the -rc series is to indicate in the commit message or even the > heading that it fixes a regression. > > I usually try to begin such commits with the text: > > this patch fixes a regression caused by change 018745435 > "foo: fix bar"... > > Then copying in some crash dump text never hurts :-) > > It makes it very easy for us as subsystem maintainers to pick > regression fixes.
Right, I actually pointed to the culprit commit (applied during the merge window) in the message, but I'll try to be more direct next time. I also agree on the crash dump, but unfortunately this one was failing silently. :-) Thanks for the tip! Fabio -- Fabio Baltieri -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
