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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/45] Update bna driver version to 3.0.2.0
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:24:07 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Rasesh Mody <rmody@brocade.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:53:06 -0700

> We can further split the submission into multiple smaller
> submissions (e.g. 4 patches a time as you suggested), but there
> still will be one big patch set for new hardware and feature
> enablement

That's fine, just don't add the patch that causes the driver
to recognize the new device IDs until all the necessary
support code is there.