Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8712: switch to common ieee80211 headers

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On Tue, Jun 02, 2020 at 04:58:46PM +0100, Pascal Terjan wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Jun 2020 at 15:57, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On 6/1/20 3:24 PM, Pascal Terjan wrote:
> > > This patch switches to <linux/ieee80211.h> and <net/cfg80211.h> and
> > > deletes a lot of duplicate definitions plus many unused ones.
> > >
> > > Non obvious changes:
> > > - struct ieee80211_ht_cap is different enough that I preferred to keep
> > >    (and rename) it for now.
> > > - mcs_rate in translate_scan was not read after being set, so I deleted
> > >    that part rather than using the renamed struct
> > > - WLAN_CAPABILITY_BSS is replaced with WLAN_CAPABILITY_ESS which is the
> > >    corresponding one with same value
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Pascal Terjan <pterjan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > This patch does not apply to the staging repo, current mainline, or
> > wireless-drivers-next. Where did you intend it to go? Staging is the correct tree.
> 
> It was against staging-testing as there is a (trivial) merge conflict
> in there with https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git/commit/?h=staging-testing&id=2aaeaaff1ae21b2817256435c7fc0095eeda61ae
> which is also in staging-next
> What is the best practice in such case?

It has to apply against staging-next so that's fine.

> 
> Thanks to kbuild test robot I found that it is failing to build there
> because I forgot to add a dependency on CFG80211 in Kconfig, so I will
> need to send a v2.

Yup.

regards,
dan carpenter

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