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On Thu, 04 Aug 2016 17:47:38 +0200,
Jiri Kosina wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 4 Aug 2016, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 
> > Agreed that it's a good practice.  But what if a fix isn't a
> > regression fix?  Many stable patches are trivial ones like PCI ID
> > additions.
> 
> If it's not a bugfix, the applicability to -stable is very questionable in 
> my eyes.
> 
> Device IDs might be made the same exception as post-merge window PCI ID 
> additions to Linus' tree. Even there, post -rc1, everything should be 
> bugfix, but device ID additions are allowed.

Yes, I didn't mean a non-fix.  The oft-seen addition of PCI IDs or
addition of device-specific quirks are actually "fixes", but not a
regression fix one can point to a certain commit.  The driver code
itself is fine until the new hardware.  It's just a new device that
came up after the driver code.


Takashi