[PATCH 00/76] staging-next: rtl8723au: More fixes for 3.16

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 05:39:54PM +0200, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> Greg KH <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org> writes:
> > On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 03:15:52PM +0200, Jes.Sorensen at redhat.com wrote:
> >> From: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen at redhat.com>
> >> 
> >> Greg,
> >> 
> >> Thanks for pushing my other changes to Linus. This set goes on top of
> >> the set I sent you on 2014/05/31 and the fix from 2014/06/03. If you
> >> prefer I go back and submit it all as one large set, let me know.
> >> 
> >> This set contains a number of fixes, including getting rid of some 'on
> >> the wire' noise that isn't in the spec, plus removes a bunch of
> >> functionality which is handled by the 802.11 stack, and shouldn't be
> >> done within the driver.
> >> 
> >> I hope there is still a change to get it all in through the 3.16 merge
> >> window?
> >
> > 76 patches is a lot for "bugfixes and reverts only" kernel releases.
> >
> > I know lots of these are cleanups, look at the first one listed:
> >
> >>   staging: rtl8723au: rtw_get_wps_ie23a(): Remove unused dest pointer
> >>     wps_ie
> >
> > I don't feel comfortable justifying that to Linus or anyone about how
> > important it is to get into 3.16-final, sorry.
> >
> > So, can you split this out into "bugfixes/regressions" and "cleanups, so
> > I can apply them to the two different trees (for 3.16-final and for
> > 3.17-rc1.)
> 
> OK, in that case, punt them for 3.17. The opening of 3.16 caught me a
> bit by surprise to be honest, I thought I had another week or two.
> 
> The previous set I sent you, I really would like in for 3.16
> though. That is a total of 13 commits.

Ok, I'll go through them (and the 400+ other patches in my todo list)
after 3.16-rc1 is out next week.

thanks

greg k-h