Return-path: Received: from mail-wg0-f42.google.com ([74.125.82.42]:53437 "EHLO mail-wg0-f42.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756267Ab2HJNg2 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Aug 2012 09:36:28 -0400 Received: by wgbfm10 with SMTP id fm10so1183704wgb.1 for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2012 06:36:26 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20120810132054.GA2229@tuxdriver.com> References: <1344544690-11280-1-git-send-email-zajec5@gmail.com> <5024CE29.5030500@broadcom.com> <5024FD42.6070307@hauke-m.de> <20120810132054.GA2229@tuxdriver.com> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 15:36:26 +0200 Message-ID: (sfid-20120810_153730_903430_886DD2BB) Subject: Re: [PATCH wireless?] bcma: keep info about parallel flash presentence From: =?UTF-8?B?UmFmYcWCIE1pxYJlY2tp?= To: "John W. Linville" Cc: Hauke Mehrtens , Arend van Spriel , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 2012/8/10 John W. Linville : > 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... Ouch, I hoped bcma fix will go into 3.6-rc2 or 3.6-rc3 and Ralf will rebase his tree against Linus at some point... OK, I'll try to send additional bcm47xx fix through yours tree (after Ralf accepts it). -- Rafał