On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> I'd like to have Andrew or Linus opinion on doing this driver swap that
> late in the process.
Quite franklly, no.
If it was a totally _new_ driver, there's no chance of regression, which
is why we allow those drivers.
But switching an old one for a new one does not match that pattern. We can
clearly get regressions. As such, we don't do it late in the -rc series.
Linus
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