linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the final tree (wireless & staging trees related)

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Message-ID: <20110812135101.GA2286@tuxdriver.com>
Date:	Fri, 12 Aug 2011 09:51:02 -0400
From:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
To:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:	Kalle Valo <kvalo@....qualcomm.com>, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@....qualcomm.com>,
	Raja Mani <rmani@....qualcomm.com>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the final tree
 (wireless & staging trees related)

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 12:12:16PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Kalle, Greg,
> 
> On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:50:57 +0300 Kalle Valo <kvalo@....qualcomm.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 08/11/2011 05:16 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:05:42AM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
> > >
> > >> Yes, the cleaned up version of ath6kl is now in wireless-next and the
> > >> staging version can be removed in 3.2. Greg, how do you want to handle
> > >> removal of the staging version? Should I send a patch to you removing
> > >> it? Or should I send the patch to John?
> > > 
> > > Just tell me.  Should I really delete drivers/staging/ath6kl/ for the
> > > 3.2 kernel release?  If so, I'll gladly do so in my tree so linux-next
> > > will be fine for issues like this in the future.
> > 
> > Yes, please delete ath6kl from staging for the 3.2 release as the
> > cleanup version is now in wireless-next.
> > 
> > Thank you everyone and sorry for the mess.
> 
> I think that the removal should be done in the wirelesss tree so that
> Linus' tree is not broken during the next merge window.
> 
> I have added the removal patch as a merge fixup one the merge of the
> wireless tree for today.

Makes sense to me -- probably also is more sane if there is some fool
out there relying on the ath6kl driver in staging that doesn't know
about the switch to the wireless tree.

John
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