Re: [PATCH v10 0/1] wfx: get out from the staging area

Kalle Valo
2022-02-26T13:15:44Z

Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> writes:

> On Sat, Feb 26, 2022 at 12:41:41PM +0200, Kalle Valo wrote:
>> + jakub
>>
>> Jerome Pouiller <Jerome.Pouiller@silabs.com> writes:
>>
>> > The firmware and the PDS files (= antenna configurations) are now a part of
>> > the linux-firmware repository.
>> >
>> > All the issues have been fixed in staging tree. I think we are ready to get
>> > out from the staging tree for the kernel 5.18.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> > rename Documentation/devicetree/bindings/{staging =>
>> > }/net/wireless/silabs,wfx.yaml (98%)
>>
>> I lost track, is this file acked by the DT maintainers now?
>>
>> What I suggest is that we queue this for v5.19. After v5.18-rc1 is
>> released I could create an immutable branch containing this one commit.
>> Then I would merge the branch to wireless-next and Greg could merge it
>> to the staging tree, that way we would minimise the chance of conflicts
>> between trees.
>>
>> Greg, what do you think? Would this work for you? IIRC we did the same
>> with wilc1000 back in 2020 and I recall it went without hiccups.
>
> That sounds great to me, let's plan on that happening after 5.18-rc1 is
> out.

Very good, we have a plan then. I marked the patch as deferred in
patchwork:

https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/patch/20220226092142.10164-2-Jerome.Pouiller@silabs.com/

Jerome, feel free to remind me about this after v5.18-rc1 is released.

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