On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 10:54:46AM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > On 06/09/2014 10:39 AM, Jes Sorensen wrote: > >Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >>On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 03:15:52PM +0200, Jes.Sorensen@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >>>From: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@xxxxxxxxxx> > >>> > >>>Greg, > >>> > >>>Thanks for pushing my other changes to Linus. This set goes on top of > >>>the set I sent you on 2014/05/31 and the fix from 2014/06/03. If you > >>>prefer I go back and submit it all as one large set, let me know. > >>> > >>>This set contains a number of fixes, including getting rid of some 'on > >>>the wire' noise that isn't in the spec, plus removes a bunch of > >>>functionality which is handled by the 802.11 stack, and shouldn't be > >>>done within the driver. > >>> > >>>I hope there is still a change to get it all in through the 3.16 merge > >>>window? > >> > >>76 patches is a lot for "bugfixes and reverts only" kernel releases. > >> > >>I know lots of these are cleanups, look at the first one listed: > >> > >>> staging: rtl8723au: rtw_get_wps_ie23a(): Remove unused dest pointer > >>> wps_ie > >> > >>I don't feel comfortable justifying that to Linus or anyone about how > >>important it is to get into 3.16-final, sorry. > >> > >>So, can you split this out into "bugfixes/regressions" and "cleanups, so > >>I can apply them to the two different trees (for 3.16-final and for > >>3.17-rc1.) > > > >OK, in that case, punt them for 3.17. The opening of 3.16 caught me a > >bit by surprise to be honest, I thought I had another week or two. > > > >The previous set I sent you, I really would like in for 3.16 > >though. That is a total of 13 commits. > > Jes and Greg, > > Linus wanted to issue 3.16-rc1 before he started his family vacation. The > necessity of needing 3.15-rc8 interfered with that so he opened the merge in > a temporary "next" branch of mainline, thus merging was already in progress > when 3.15 was released. > > That said, patches 19 and 20 fix a firmware naming problem, and they should > be included in 3.16, and backported to 3.15. Ok, I'll look into backporting those when I apply them, thanks. Any others you feel should go into 3.16, please let me know. greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
