linux-kernel - RE: [ 014/128] mwifiex: wakeup and stop multiple tx queues in net

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Date:	Mon, 4 Feb 2013 16:36:46 -0800
From:	Bing Zhao <bzhao@...vell.com>
To:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
CC:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
	"akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Avinash Patil <patila@...vell.com>,
	Kiran Divekar <dkiran@...vell.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
Subject: RE: [ 014/128] mwifiex: wakeup and stop multiple tx queues in
 net_device

Hi Ben,

> On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 11:43 -0800, Bing Zhao wrote:
> > Hi Ben,
> >
> > > 3.2-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > >
> > > ------------------
> > >
> > > From: Avinash Patil <patila@...vell.com>
> > >
> > > commit bbea3bc432dc5c08d09ca5c80afdd82515470688 upstream.
> >
> > This patch is not for stable kernel.
> [...]
> 
> Right, I've managed to pick up 3 changes to mwifiex that it looks like I
> shouldn't have included.  Firstly:
> 
> 9c969d8ccb1e mwifiex: check wait_event_interruptible return value
> 
> This had "3.6+" to the left of <stable@...r.kernel.org>, whereas I
> expect version qualifiers to be on the right.  So my import script just
> put this in the queue without asking me to interpret the version
> qualifier.  (I don't automate *that* because people use too wide a
> variety of syntaxes.)

Sorry. From now on I will put version qualifiers on the right side of <stable@...r...>

> 
> When trying to apply that, I found that it seemed to depend on these
> two:
> 
> bbea3bc432dc mwifiex: wakeup and stop multiple tx queues in net_device

I'd rather classify this patch as an enhancement because the code change is relatively large.
To play it safe, let's drop this patch from -stable.

> b7097eb75fa1 mwifiex: handle association failure case correctly

This is a bug fix indeed.

> 
> which also looked like they were important fixes.  Presumably I should
> drop all of those?

Please drop bbea3bc432dc only.

I can resend a backport of "b7097eb75fa1 mwifiex: handle association failure case correctly" for 3.2-stable.

Thanks,
Bing