Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: pxa: pxa2xx: Remove 'pxa2xx_pinctrl_exit()' which is unused and broken

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On Thu, 4 Jun 2020, Joe Perches wrote:

On Thu, 2020-06-04 at 11:52 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
Should Fixes also be used when the change will make it hard to port other
fixes over it?
If it's a logic defect or regression that's being fixed,
shouldn't the logic defect or regression be fixed as
reasonably soon as possible?
Sure, but I recall seeing some patches that mentioned that the problem had
existed since the beginning of git.  Of course, it should be rare.

The nature of the fix should ideally be optimal for
backporting, but I believe that should not stop any
consideration for the standalone fix itself.
I'm not sure to follow this.  Sometimes non-bug fixes that block
backporting a bug fix have to be backported as well.  So the fixes would
again highlight the range of versions affected by the issue.

julia

What do you think?

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