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

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Date:	Wed, 06 Feb 2013 04:21:02 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Bing Zhao <bzhao@...vell.com>
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

On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 16:36 -0800, Bing Zhao wrote:
> 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, I've made these two changes.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
                                                           - Albert Einstein

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