Re: [GIT PULL v2] MFD: Fixes due for the v3.10 -rc:s

[Linus Walleij]

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Fabio Baltieri
<fabio.baltieri@xxxxxxxxxx> 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.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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