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Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 21:29:43 -0400
From: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: [RC6 Bell Chime] [PATCH 00/24] rfcomm fixes
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Hi Sander,

On 03/13/2014 08:49 PM, Sander Eikelenboom wrote:
> <sarcasm on>
> Is it just me .. or is this going at the speed of about a bluetooth connection ..
> and probably missing the boot for 3.14 ? (for no good reason IMHO)
> <sarcasm off>
>
> (it was not in John's nor Dave's last pull request, although it seems to be reverted in the bluetooth tree now .. i didn't
> see any formal pull request from that .. to get it even *starting* to traverse all the trees up to Linus ... )

Known bugs sometimes roll out into mainline release because the
alternative can be worse.

As I explained in the follow-up to my patch series, I would
not have expected Marcel to pick up any of the fixes for 3.14.
There are a lot of moving parts in usb + bluetooth + rfcomm + tty,
and the unfortunate reality is that -next doesn't get as much
testing as it should.

The fault is mine because Gianluca let me know about the
problems with the conversion to tty_port, but the holidays really
interfered with my ability to put this work first, and I'm sorry
for that.

I know the breakage around RFCOMM is frustrating but I think the
worst is behind us. After 3.15 gets some -rc testing, I will
be happy to cherry-pick the critical fixes for -stable inclusion.

Regards,
Peter Hurley