Re: [PATCH wireless?] bcma: keep info about parallel flash presentence

["John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 02:25:48PM +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> 2012/8/10 Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>:
> > On 08/10/2012 11:32 AM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> >> 2012/8/10 Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>:
> >>> On 08/09/2012 10:38 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> >>>> This allows drivers to access flash conditionally and stop crashing some
> >>>> devices.
> >>>>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
> >>>> Acked-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
> >>>> ---
> >>>> John: I suggest taking it for wirelesss, AKA fix
> >>>
> >>> Maybe you could mentioned devices and/or drivers crashes without this patch?
> >>
> >> Yes, sure! The problematic one for me is arch/mips/bcm47xx/nvram.c.
> >> Right now it assumes every BCMA board has pflash. I'll submit fix for
> >> mips tree when this patch hits it.
> >
> > Letting this patches get merged into the wireless tree and an other
> > patches which depends on this one into the mips tree will cause
> > problems, because the wireless tree only gets merged into the mips tree
> > indirectly round about the rc1 release in form of the rc1 release done
> > by Linus.
> >
> > The patch to arch/mips/bcm47xx/nvram.c will depend on this one and you
> > should submit them to the same tree.
> 
> I'm planning to wait until rc2 (or rc3 if needed). I know the dependency :)

Which rc2?  Because Ralf probably won't have it in his tree until
the 3.7-rc1 timeframe...

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