From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Cc: Linux Wireless List <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] brcm80211: minor bug fixes for broadcom driver
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:18:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120416171828.GB28941@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F8BDD79.6030008@broadcom.com>
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:51:05AM +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> On 04/13/2012 07:57 PM, John W. Linville wrote:
> >On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 11:52:42AM +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> >
> >In general, when mixing fixes and features/updates into a single
> >series then the fixes should come at the beginning of the series.
> >This helps to avoid dependencies on non-fix patches.
> >
> >I'll try to apply patch 9 to the wireless tree, and if that works I
> >won't complain about it... :-)
> >
> >John
>
> Like mentioned on collaboration summit, we may need a bit more
> education on how to deal with stable fixes. I tagged the patch with
> cc to stable, but not sure if that is the correct way to do it. The
> stable rules are written in a generic way so I want know how the
> picture looks like when moving patches upstream via a maintainer
> tree.
>
> So here is my understanding:
>
> 1. submit patch without CC'ing stable against your wireless tree.
> 2. patch moves upstream to Dave's net tree.
> 3. patch moves further upstream to Linus' tree.
> 4. submit patch to stable with upstream commit id.
>
> Is adding the CC to stable in step 1. a shortcut or is step 4. still
> necessary in that case?
Adding the CC in Step 1 should be sufficient. Step 4 is required if
the CC is missed in Step 1.
Hth!
John
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-11 9:52 [PATCH 0/9] brcm80211: minor bug fixes for broadcom driver Arend van Spriel
2012-04-11 9:52 ` [PATCH 1/9] brcm80211: fmac: make brcmf_net_attach() static Arend van Spriel
2012-04-11 9:52 ` [PATCH 2/9] brcm80211: fmac: remove primary mac address handling from brcmf_net_attach Arend van Spriel
2012-04-11 9:52 ` [PATCH 3/9] brcm80211: fmac: register primary net device with device mac address Arend van Spriel
2012-04-11 9:52 ` [PATCH 4/9] brcm80211: fmac: add frame header extension support Arend van Spriel
2012-04-11 9:52 ` [PATCH 5/9] brcm80211: fmac: postpone dongle RF enabling Arend van Spriel
2012-04-11 9:52 ` [PATCH 6/9] brcm80211: fmac: clean up chip id table Arend van Spriel
2012-04-11 9:52 ` [PATCH 7/9] brcm80211: smac: do not use US as fallback regulatory hint Arend van Spriel
2012-04-13 14:48 ` Seth Forshee
2012-04-16 8:20 ` Arend van Spriel
2012-04-11 9:52 ` [PATCH 8/9] brcm80211: smac: only provide valid " Arend van Spriel
2012-04-11 9:52 ` [PATCH 9/9] brcm80211: smac: resume transmit fifo upon receiving frames Arend van Spriel
2012-04-13 17:57 ` [PATCH 0/9] brcm80211: minor bug fixes for broadcom driver John W. Linville
2012-04-16 8:51 ` Arend van Spriel
2012-04-16 17:18 ` John W. Linville [this message]
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