Return-path: Received: from charlotte.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.58]:41108 "EHLO smtp.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755899Ab2HJN2o (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Aug 2012 09:28:44 -0400 Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 09:20:55 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: =?utf-8?B?UmFmYcWCIE1pxYJlY2tp?= Cc: Hauke Mehrtens , Arend van Spriel , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH wireless?] bcma: keep info about parallel flash presentence Message-ID: <20120810132054.GA2229@tuxdriver.com> (sfid-20120810_152848_090100_F6F62535) References: <1344544690-11280-1-git-send-email-zajec5@gmail.com> <5024CE29.5030500@broadcom.com> <5024FD42.6070307@hauke-m.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 02:25:48PM +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote: > 2012/8/10 Hauke Mehrtens : > > On 08/10/2012 11:32 AM, Rafał Miłecki wrote: > >> 2012/8/10 Arend van Spriel : > >>> On 08/09/2012 10:38 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote: > >>>> This allows drivers to access flash conditionally and stop crashing some > >>>> devices. > >>>> > >>>> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki > >>>> Acked-by: Hauke Mehrtens > >>>> --- > >>>> John: I suggest taking it for wirelesss, AKA fix > >>> > >>> Maybe you could mentioned devices and/or drivers crashes without this patch? > >> > >> Yes, sure! The problematic one for me is arch/mips/bcm47xx/nvram.c. > >> Right now it assumes every BCMA board has pflash. I'll submit fix for > >> mips tree when this patch hits it. > > > > Letting this patches get merged into the wireless tree and an other > > patches which depends on this one into the mips tree will cause > > problems, because the wireless tree only gets merged into the mips tree > > indirectly round about the rc1 release in form of the rc1 release done > > by Linus. > > > > The patch to arch/mips/bcm47xx/nvram.c will depend on this one and you > > should submit them to the same tree. > > I'm planning to wait until rc2 (or rc3 if needed). I know the dependency :) Which rc2? Because Ralf probably won't have it in his tree until the 3.7-rc1 timeframe... -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready.