Hello Greg,
On Tue, Aug 12, 2025 at 10:53:11AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
On Sat, Aug 09, 2025 at 11:45:23AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
while the new code makes the driver match the PWM rules now, I'd be conservative and not backport that patch because while I consider it a (very minor) fix that's a change in behaviour and maybe people depend on that old behaviour. So let's not break our user's workflows and reserve that for a major release. Please drop this patch from your queue.
Now dropped, but note, any behavior change is ok for ANY kernel version as we guarantee they all work the same :)
Your statement makes no sense, I guess you missed to add a "don't". Otherwise I'd like to know who "we" is :-)
So good luck with your users in the 6.17 release...
Yeah, thanks. I still like reducing the changes in stable that have little benefit and the potential to subtly break workflows. I don't like that potential breakage for 6.17 either, but there it's better justifiable and that's the only way to get the improvement in at all.
Best regards Uwe