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

[Larry Finger]

On 06/09/2014 10:39 AM, 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.

Jes and Greg,

Linus wanted to issue 3.16-rc1 before he started his family vacation. The 
necessity of needing 3.15-rc8 interfered with that so he opened the merge in a 
temporary "next" branch of mainline, thus merging was already in progress when 
3.15 was released.

That said, patches 19 and 20 fix a firmware naming problem, and they should be 
included in 3.16, and backported to 3.15.

Larry