On Sat, 14 Nov 2020 at 01:40, Andrew Lunn <and...@lunn.ch> wrote: > > > One question that still has not been answered is how many actual > > platforms were fixed by backporting Realtek's follow up fix to > > -stable. My suspicion is none. That by itself should be enough > > justification to revert the backport of that change. > > I think i've already said that would be a good idea. It makes the > problem less critical. But the problem is still there, we are just > kicking the can down the road. I've not seen much activity actually > fixing the broken DT. So i suspect when we catch up with the can, we > will mostly still be in the same place. Actually, maybe worse, because > broken DTs have been copy/pasted for new boards? >
I don't see how that matters. If the new board ships with a stable kernel, things should simply work as they did before. If the new board ships with a new kernel, things won't work in the first place, so it is unlikely to cause a regression in the field.
