linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: r8188eu: core: remove the function power_saving_wk

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Message-ID: <20210920123910.GQ2088@kadam>
Date:   Mon, 20 Sep 2021 15:39:10 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     "Fabio M. De Francesco" <fmdefrancesco@...il.com>
Cc:     Saurav Girepunje <saurav.girepunje@...il.com>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        saurav.girepunje@...mail.com, Larry.Finger@...inger.net,
        phil@...lpotter.co.uk, straube.linux@...il.com,
        linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: r8188eu: core: remove the function
 power_saving_wk_hdl

On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 02:31:28PM +0200, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote:
> On Monday, September 20, 2021 1:32:21 PM CEST Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 01:13:54PM +0200, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote:
> > > On Monday, September 20, 2021 12:36:06 PM CEST Greg KH wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 10:52:50PM +0530, Saurav Girepunje wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > On 13/09/21 9:48 pm, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > > > On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 11:24:39PM +0530, Saurav Girepunje wrote:
> > > > > > > Remove the function power_saving_wk_hdl() as it just calling
> > > > > > > the rtw_ps_processor().Instead of power_saving_wk_hdl() call 
> directly
> > > > > > > rtw_ps_processor().
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Saurav Girepunje <saurav.girepunje@...il.com>
> > > > > >
> > > > > > []
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Also does not apply to my tree.  Please rebase against my staging-
> next
> > > > > > branch and resend.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > thanks,
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > greg k-h
> > > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Hi Greg,
> > > > > 
> > > > > I always do rebase against your staging-testing branch. Can you help 
> me 
> > > to
> > > > > understand.When we need to rebase on staging-next. Do we always need 
> to
> > > > > rebase against staging-next..!
> > > > 
> > > > Yes, you should.  When you are working on code that lots of other 
> people
> > > > are working on, there will be conflicts like this, and you just need to
> > > > stay on top of it.
> > > > 
> > > > thanks,
> > > > 
> > > > greg k-h
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Sorry, Greg. I'm confused... :(
> > > 
> > > As far as I know, everyone here make patches for staging-testing.
> > 
> > Nope.  It's only you.
> 
> And Saurav (at least) :)
> 

Nope.  Saurav is working against something old.  You can see the
#ifdef CONFIG_88EU_P2P stuff that was removed in commit 102243f893ec
("staging: r8188eu: Remove conditionals CONFIG_88EU_{AP_MODE,P2P}") was
applied.

> I've been misled and in turn I misled Pavel. This is due to a guide in 
> kernelnewbies.org that explicitly says to use staging-testing:
> 
> https://kernelnewbies.org/OutreachyfirstpatchSetup
> 
> In that page the is a section ("Set up your Linux kernel code repository") 
> which says: "[] Then use the revision control system called git to clone Greg 
> Kroah-Hartman's staging tree repository: git clone -b staging-testing git://
> git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git".
> 

Huh...

Those aren't *bad* instructions.  Working against testing-next is fine,
but just be aware that it can rebase.

regards,
dan carpenter