Return-path: Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:42739 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754206Ab0CKAQO (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:16:14 -0500 Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:52:20 -0800 From: Greg KH To: tom.leiming@gmail.com Cc: lrodriguez@atheros.com, ath9k-devel@venema.h4ckr.net, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linville@tuxdriver.com, johannes@sipsolutions.net, stable@kernel.org Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH] ath9k: decrease size of ath9k.ko Message-ID: <20100310235220.GA7247@kroah.com> References: <1267289803-6795-1-git-send-email-tom.leiming@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1267289803-6795-1-git-send-email-tom.leiming@gmail.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 12:56:43AM +0800, tom.leiming@gmail.com wrote: > From: Ming Lei > > The patch defines the fields of 'valid_single_stream' and 'valid' in > struct ath_rate_table as char type, so decrease the size of ath9k.ko > about 2KB. Why would this be a -stable patch? confused, greg k-h