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From: Sergey Matyukevich <sergey.matyukevich.os@quantenna.com>
To: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	Igor Mitsyanko <igor.mitsyanko.os@quantenna.com>,
	Avinash Patil <avinashp@quantenna.com>
Subject: Re: [v2,1/2] qtnfmac: lock access to h/w in tx path
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 14:56:19 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170921115618.xmrdwhylrp3ljmds@bars> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878th870u7.fsf@codeaurora.org>

> > - these two fixes will show up in wireless-drivers-next at some point
> > in the future after you move wireless-drivers-next forward, rebasing
> > it on top of one of the upcoming "-rc"
> 
> I would not use the term "rebase" here, as that means rewriting the
> history which should be avoided on public trees. What I usually do is to
> "merge" (git pull) or "fast forward" (git pull --ff-only).
> 
> You are correct that eventually commits from wireless-drivers trickle
> down to wireless-drivers-next, I guess usually it takes something like
> 2-4 weeks. Most of them time they trickle down when Dave merges net to
> net-next and I fast forward wireless-drivers-next to latest net-next
> (after Dave has pulled from me). But occasionally I also merge
> wireless-drivers to wireless-drivers-next myself, for example I did that
> last cycle as there were major conflicts on iwlwifi and we wanted to fix
> those early on. The earlier the conflicts are resolved the smoother it
> is for everyone.

Understood.

> So if you have needs for getting the commits from wireless-drivers to
> wireless-drivers-next please let me know and let's see what's the best
> way forward.

Ok, good to know. But not this time, of course. We are keeping a bunch
of upcoming features and fixes in our internal tree on top of
wireless-drivers-next. So two more small patches for two more weeks
don't make any difference.

> Did this help?

Sure, thanks a lot for explanation!

Regards,
Sergey

  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-21 11:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-18 12:29 [PATCH v2 0/2] qtnfmac: misc fixes intended for 4.14 Sergey Matyukevich
2017-09-18 12:29 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] qtnfmac: lock access to h/w in tx path Sergey Matyukevich
2017-09-20 12:35   ` [v2,1/2] " Kalle Valo
2017-09-21  8:01     ` Sergey Matyukevich
2017-09-21 11:22       ` Kalle Valo
2017-09-21 11:56         ` Sergey Matyukevich [this message]
2017-09-18 12:29 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] qtnfmac: cancel scans on wireless interface changes Sergey Matyukevich

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