[PATCH v2 00/11] bcma: add support for embedded devices like bcm4716

Hauke Mehrtens hauke at hauke-m.de
Fri Jul 22 11:04:41 EDT 2011


On 07/22/2011 03:39 PM, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 10:24:00AM +0200, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
>> On 07/22/2011 12:30 AM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>>> 2011/7/16 Hauke Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de>:
> 
>>>> @Ralf: Could you please merger this into the mips tree so that it will be in linux-3.1.
>>>
>>> ML for bcma is linux-wireless. Should we pass that patches "via" Ralf
>>> or John? Using linux-wireless (and John's tree) makes more sense to
>>> me, as we will work on the same tree and will get less merge
>>> conflicts. However don't take me as Linux development style guru, just
>>> my POV.
> 
>> I talked about this with Florian Fainelli and he said that the patches
>> should rather pass Ralf then John, but merging would be easier when they
>> are passing John. I do not have a problem with both solutions and
>> rebasing it to an other tree is no problem for me.
>> John and Ralf, who wants to take these patches? ;-)
> 
> I don't really care -- I figured Ralf was taking them due to the MIPS arch bits.
> 
> John

Hi John,

yes because of the MIPS arch bits it should go through Ralf, but there
are many changes for bcma in wireless-testing and adding my changes to
mips tree will cause some problems when wireless-testing and mips are
merged together by Linus.

Hauke



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