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Date:   Wed, 3 Aug 2022 08:37:56 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Grzegorz Szymaszek <gszymaszek@short.pl>,
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        Phillip Potter <phil@philpotter.co.uk>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: r8188eu: add firmware dependency
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On Wed, Aug 03, 2022 at 08:33:35AM +0200, Grzegorz Szymaszek wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 03, 2022 at 08:08:31AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > This looks good, and I'll apply it after 5.20-rc1 is out,
> 
> I didn’t Cc stable since the “Submitting patches” guide says it’s for
> “severe bugs”, but would it be possible to backport the patch to the
> older kernels?

Yes, I will tag it for backporting.

> > but you might want to send a follow-on patch that removes the hard-coded
> > string in 2 places in the driver, and just puts it into a single define
> > somewhere, to make it a bit easier over time.
> 
> Good idea, will do so. I didn’t check if the filename is already used.
> Would something like “this patch depends on patch…” (again from the
> guide) be enough (assuming I will send the new patch before this one
> is applied)?

No need to add the "this patch depends on", I'll know that implicitly as
it was sent after this one :)

thanks,

greg k-h