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

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <4E453502.4000401@qca.qualcomm.com>
Date:	Fri, 12 Aug 2011 17:13:22 +0300
From:	Kalle Valo <kvalo@....qualcomm.com>
To:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
CC:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>, 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 08/12/2011 04:51 PM, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 12:12:16PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>> On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:50:57 +0300 Kalle Valo <kvalo@....qualcomm.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.

Ok, I'll send a patch to John which removes the staging driver.

Kalle
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/