[PATCH 12/19] staging: brcm80211: remove code for unsupported chip

Dan Carpenter error27 at gmail.com
Tue Jul 19 05:44:30 UTC 2011


On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 05:34:27PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On 07/18/2011 05:18 PM, Franky Lin wrote:
> 
> >No, i didn't. Thank you for pointing out this. I missed it when I
> >rebased my local branch. It didn't break any thing because
> >brcmf_mmc_suspend is a global variable. Is it ok to keep the patch like
> >this? I will prepare another patch to put it back and put the variable
> >in a structure instead of using a global.
> 
> Broken commits are bad for bisecting.  "git bisect" is used to
> search for a revision that introduces a bug.  "git bisect" selects a
> commit between the known working and the known broken revision.  If
> the commit selected by "git commit" suffers from additional
> breakage, this could lead to wasted time and possibly to a failure
> to find the commit responsible for the original problem.
> 

This commit doesn't break anything.  He explained that.
brcmf_mmc_suspend is already initialized to false here because it is
a static variable.

Don't send a v2 of the patchset.

regards,
dan carpenter

PS: Franky, if you already know the answer then you can just tell us.
You don't need to ask for permission.



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