Re: [PATCH wireless?] bcma: keep info about parallel flash presentence

[Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@xxxxxxxxx>]

2012/8/10 John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 02:25:48PM +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>> 2012/8/10 Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>> > On 08/10/2012 11:32 AM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>> >> 2012/8/10 Arend van Spriel <arend@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> >>> On 08/09/2012 10:38 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>> >>>> This allows drivers to access flash conditionally and stop crashing some
>> >>>> devices.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@xxxxxxxxx>
>> >>>> Acked-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> >>>> ---
>> >>>> John: I suggest taking it for wirelesss, AKA fix
>> >>>
>> >>> Maybe you could mentioned devices and/or drivers crashes without this patch?
>> >>
>> >> Yes, sure! The problematic one for me is arch/mips/bcm47xx/nvram.c.
>> >> Right now it assumes every BCMA board has pflash. I'll submit fix for
>> >> mips tree when this patch hits it.
>> >
>> > Letting this patches get merged into the wireless tree and an other
>> > patches which depends on this one into the mips tree will cause
>> > problems, because the wireless tree only gets merged into the mips tree
>> > indirectly round about the rc1 release in form of the rc1 release done
>> > by Linus.
>> >
>> > The patch to arch/mips/bcm47xx/nvram.c will depend on this one and you
>> > should submit them to the same tree.
>>
>> I'm planning to wait until rc2 (or rc3 if needed). I know the dependency :)
>
> Which rc2?  Because Ralf probably won't have it in his tree until
> the 3.7-rc1 timeframe...

Ouch, I hoped bcma fix will go into 3.6-rc2 or 3.6-rc3 and Ralf will
rebase his tree against Linus at some point...

OK, I'll try to send additional bcm47xx fix through yours tree (after
Ralf accepts it).

-- 
Rafał
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