From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mms2.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.18]:3560 "EHLO mms2.broadcom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752031Ab1F3VWx convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jun 2011 17:22:53 -0400 Message-ID: <4E0CE91D.10702@broadcom.com> (sfid-20110630_232257_224234_73DAE0B8) Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:22:37 -0700 From: "Henry Ptasinski" MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Luciano Coelho" cc: =?UTF-8?B?UmFmYcWCIE1pxYJlY2tp?= , "Franky (Zhenhui) Lin" , "gregkh@suse.de" , "devel@linuxdriverproject.org" , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , "Roland Vossen" , "Arend Van Spriel" , "Brett Rudley" , "Henry Ptasinski" Subject: Re: [PATCH 000/119] staging: brcm80211: more code cleanup and bug fixed References: <1309391303-22741-1-git-send-email-frankyl@broadcom.com> <4E0CB587.3000209@broadcom.com> <1309464979.1514.177.camel@cumari> In-Reply-To: <1309464979.1514.177.camel@cumari> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 06/30/2011 01:16 PM, Luciano Coelho wrote: > Hi Henry, > > On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 10:42 -0700, Henry Ptasinski wrote: >> On 06/29/2011 11:29 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote: >>> 2011/6/30 Franky Lin: >>>> Most of these patches are brcmfmac cleanup. >>> >>> >>> Hm, interesting improvement in your "Release early, release often" strategy. >>> >> >> Yea, we were waiting for the previous series to get applied. Not sure >> how to make this work better. Any process suggestions would be appreciated. > > Keep sending them in small batches, I think it is just normal to apply > the batches one after the other, no need to keep waiting. If there are > no conflicts, everything should go smoothly. And if it doesn't, someone > will ping you. ;) > That's what we had been doing, but along the way a patch or two got dropped and that caused a train wreck. We were hoping that switching to a more batch-oriented mode would help, but obviously that approach has it's own problems. - Henry