linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] rtlwifi (and staging rtl8821ae) cleanups

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Date:	Thu, 20 Mar 2014 13:05:29 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
Cc:	Peter Wu <peter@...ensteyn.nl>,
	John W Linville <linville@...driver.com>,
	Chaoming_Li <chaoming_li@...lsil.com.cn>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	lekensteyn@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] rtlwifi (and staging rtl8821ae) cleanups

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 02:48:22PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 03/20/2014 01:52 PM, Peter Wu wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >The first patch of these series was NAKed some weeks ago because it would
> >conflict with the new rtl8723be driver. Since those changes are in wireless-next
> >now, I have adjusted that patch to take care of rtl8723be.
> >
> >The other two patches to the staging driver is similar to the rtlwifi changes.
> >I am not sure who to send these two patches to. Greg is the staging maintainer,
> >but John takes wireless patches, so I have included both of you.
> >
> >All patches are compile-tested on top of v3.14-rc2-938-g67b3bd4.
> >
> >I also found the following (unrelated to my patches) warning while compiling the
> >staging driver, perhaps it needs a closer look?
> 
> Peter,
> 
> Your Patch 1/3 applies cleanly and I think it is OK, but if you are going to
> do cleanups on the wireless tree, you should be working from the latest
> version of wireless-testing git repo. We are on 3.14-rc7 and there are
> several recent commits that might have conflicted.
> 
> As for the changes to staging/rtl8821ae (No. 2 & 3), once Linus starts the
> merge that will precede the release of 3.15-rc2, the entire code for
> rtl8821ae will be replaced. A cleaned-up version was nearly ready for the
> regular wireless tree in time to make 3.15, but it did not get enough
> testing. As a result, that driver will be in testing for one more cycle. By
> 3.16, it should reside in the regular tree and be out of staging.
> 
> Pushing patches that affect both the regular tree and staging is complicated
> and should be avoided whenever possible.

Yes, for now, I'm going to ignore these patches (especially as my trees
are now closed for "cleanup" patches for 3.15-rc1, and wait for this all
to settle down before accepting anything else for this driver.

thanks,

greg k-h
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