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Date:	Thu, 03 May 2012 13:21:12 -0700
From:	"Guy, Wey-Yi" <wey-yi.w.guy@...el.com>
To:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
	alexander.duyck@...il.com, alexander.h.duyck@...el.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, edumazet@...gle.com,
	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] tcp: cleanup tcp_try_coalesce

Hi John,

On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 13:07 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 08:24:19AM -0700, Guy, Wey-Yi wrote:
> > Hi John,
> > 
> > On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 11:14 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 01:25:02AM -0400, David Miller wrote:
> > > > From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
> > > > Date: Thu, 03 May 2012 07:19:33 +0200
> > > > 
> > > > > My last patch against iwlwifi is still waiting to make its way into
> > > > > official tree.
> > > > > 
> > > > > http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg192629.html
> > > > 
> > > > John, please rectify this situation.
> > > > 
> > > > The Intel Wireless folks said they would test it, but that was more
> > > > than a month ago.
> > > > 
> > > > It's not acceptable to let bug fixes rot for that long, I don't care
> > > > what their special internal testing procedure is.
> > > > 
> > > > If they give you further pushback, please just ignore them and apply
> > > > Eric's fix directly.
> > > > 
> > > > Thank you.
> > > 
> > > I imagine that this somehow got lost in the shuffle during the
> > > merge window.  That doesn't excuse it, of course.
> > > 
> > > It has waited long enough already, so I'll just go ahead and take it.
> > > 
> > it is my mistake to lost this patch during the iwlwifi re-factor work,
> > the patch is no longer apply and I ask Eric to rebase the patch.
> > 
> > Sorry again for the mistake
> 
> Well, it seems like a fix needed for 3.4.  And, the patch applies there.
> 
> It does cause some merge breakage in wireless-testing (and presumably
> in linux-next).  I'll attach the commit diff for the wireless-testing
> merge fixup I did, for review and/or as a peace offering to sfr... :-)
> 
> Please take a look at the result in wireless-testing and let me know
> if it is broken...thanks!
> 
Looks good to me, thanks very much for helping this.

Wey

> 


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