From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: "Rafał Miłecki" <zajec5@gmail.com>
Cc: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>,
Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH wireless?] bcma: keep info about parallel flash presentence
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 09:20:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120810132054.GA2229@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACna6rxLe6PKqdfG7XVb4f7XH5nk_dKZX-sC1-KS19AManD1+Q@mail.gmail.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...
--
John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-10 13:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-09 20:38 [PATCH wireless?] bcma: keep info about parallel flash presentence Rafał Miłecki
2012-08-10 9:02 ` Arend van Spriel
2012-08-10 9:32 ` Rafał Miłecki
2012-08-10 9:32 ` Rafał Miłecki
2012-08-10 12:23 ` Hauke Mehrtens
2012-08-10 12:25 ` Rafał Miłecki
2012-08-10 13:20 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2012-08-10 13:36 ` Rafał Miłecki
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