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SubjectRE: + wireless-fix-iwlwifi-unify-init-driver-flow.patch added to -mm tree
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: David Miller [mailto:davem@davemloft.net]
>Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 7:39 AM
>To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; akpm@linux-foundation.org
>Cc: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org; linville@tuxdriver.com; Rindjunsky,
Ron;
>sfr@canb.auug.org.au; Winkler, Tomas
>Subject: Re: + wireless-fix-iwlwifi-unify-init-driver-flow.patch added
to -
>mm tree
>
>From: akpm@linux-foundation.org
>Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 21:05:50 -0700
>
>> Subject: wireless: fix "iwlwifi: unify init driver flow"
>> From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
>>
>> drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c: In function
'iwlcore_init_geos':
>> drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c:323: error: implicit
declaration
>of function 'iwlcore_init_ht_hw_capab'
>>
>> This (or something like it) should be folded into the base patch to
avoid
>> breaking bisection, please.
>>
>> Cc: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
>> Cc: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
>> Cc: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
>> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
>> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
>
>Andrew, you have to figure out what we're supposed to do here.
>
>If I "fold in the patch" to avoid breaking bisection, I have to
>completely rebase my tree screwing up everyone of my downstream
>developers.
>
>Or is this some patch I'm supposed to remember to fold in several
>months from now, to some random changeset out of thousands, when the
>merge window opens?
>
>Neither option is tenable, and the headaches of neither are
>worth it purely for the sake of bisection.
>
>My solution to the bisection problem is to wait a day before pushing
>out usually, it's a best effort thing. I do as many sanity builds as
>I can, and we also hope that someone during that day might solve the
>problem independantly and post a fix. That way I can fix it in my
>tree locally before the tree goes public.
>
>And I think this is the most reasonable approach.
>
>Once I push something to my public tree, quite frankly, it's the real
>deal, it's staying there, and it's a part of the permanent record.
>And therefore, we'll put fixes on top.

A patch that was sent to wireless-dev among others fixes this problem
I guess it's still stack in the Linville's queue.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/14339

Sorry for not catching it earlier.

Thanks
Tomas
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