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Re: [PATCH] iio: tmp006: Set correct iio name

From One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] iio: tmp006: Set correct iio name
Date 2016-04-28 15:30 +0200
Message-ID <rsUb3-3LP-69@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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> It's clearly wrong. But the problem is there might be an application that
> depends on the wrong behavior, the driver has been around for 2.5 years. So
> it's difficult to fix. We might just go ahead in this case and take the
> chance that nobody will complain. But if somebody complains this will bring
> us the wrath of the Linus.

Not if you put it into next, test it, then into a new release as early as
possible (for -rc1), clearly document that it's got a user visible change
that should not matter with instructions if anyone hits this as a
bisection for their app failing to email so you know and can revert it.

Alan

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[PATCH] iio: tmp006: Set correct iio name Yong Li <sdliyong@gmail.com> - 2016-04-22 05:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] iio: tmp006: Set correct iio name Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org> - 2016-04-25 21:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] iio: tmp006: Set correct iio name Crestez Dan Leonard <cdleonard@gmail.com> - 2016-04-25 23:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] iio: tmp006: Set correct iio name Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org> - 2016-04-25 23:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] iio: tmp006: Set correct iio name Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de> - 2016-04-26 13:00 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] iio: tmp006: Set correct iio name Yong Li <sdliyong@gmail.com> - 2016-04-26 13:50 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] iio: tmp006: Set correct iio name Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de> - 2016-04-26 14:10 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] iio: tmp006: Set correct iio name Yong Li <sdliyong@gmail.com> - 2016-04-26 15:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] iio: tmp006: Set correct iio name Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@gmail.com> - 2016-04-26 17:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] iio: tmp006: Set correct iio name Yong Li <sdliyong@gmail.com> - 2016-04-27 05:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] iio: tmp006: Set correct iio name Crestez Dan Leonard <leonard.crestez@intel.com> - 2016-04-27 19:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] iio: tmp006: Set correct iio name Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de> - 2016-04-28 10:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] iio: tmp006: Set correct iio name One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-04-28 15:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] iio: tmp006: Set correct iio name Peter Meerwald-Stadler <pmeerw@pmeerw.net> - 2016-04-28 15:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] iio: tmp006: Set correct iio name Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de> - 2016-04-28 16:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] iio: tmp006: Set correct iio name Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org> - 2016-05-01 23:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] iio: tmp006: Set correct iio name Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de> - 2016-04-28 16:50 +0200

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