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Re: [PATCH 34/34] ath6kl: Enable not more than one interface to workaround target assert

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On 10/25/2011 03:05 PM, Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 02:43:11PM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
>> On 10/25/2011 01:10 PM, Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan wrote:
>>> Configuring the firmware for three interfaces causes random 
>>> target assert. So restrict the number of vifs to just 1 to avoid
>>> this issue for now. Once it is fixed in firmware, this patch
>>> would be reverted.
>> 
>> Patches 32-34 are problematic. They are changing functionality of 
>> patches earlier in the series. (I guess you created those patches 
>> later.) Instead you should edit the original patches, not just add
>> extra patches on top.
> 
> Patch 32 and 33 are clean ups, i don't think integrating these 
> changes into respective patches would be trivial with the number of
> patches that need to be rebased after the change.

Yeah, that's always a problem when you are sending a huge patchset like
this. A solution for this is to work split work to smaller patches, that
way changes in patches would cause less work.

> So I can drop these two patches and send them sometime later.

Dropping doesn't make any difference here actually, still the original
code needing for cleanup will stay in the history.

> Regarding patch 34, the target configuration changes needed for multi
> vif are done in more than one patches and integrating this change
> into those changes would not make sense to those configurations. Let
> me see how I can integrate this.

Thanks.

Kalle
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