Re: [PATCH 1/7] mfd: max8925: Move _IO resources out ofioport_ioresource

[Mark Brown]

On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 07:46:52PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> Thanks a lot for following through with this series! I would have
> preferred to have the second step in stable as Russell suggested,
> but since you did all the work, I'm not going to complain about it ;-)

Yeah, it'd be nicer to do it but given that the second step is adding a
new, non-bitmask resource type to a set of resource types that have
previously been all bitmasks I know I'd not get taken seriously
suggesting it as a fix to a system integrator without a big argument
about it and general unhappiness, most people doing stable releases I've
worked with would have a similar response.  It's not that it's unsafe,
it's that it sets off alarm bells and requires more due dilligence.
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