Re: [PATCH] firmware: Arrange WHENCE in alphabetical order to avoid conflicts

From: Jaswinder Singh Rajput
Date: Mon Jan 05 2009 - 12:48:40 EST


Hello Linus,

On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 5:42 PM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 17:23 +0530, Jaswinder Singh wrote:
>>
>> We are facing problems while we prepare patch for firmware as we add
>> new stuff at the end.
>> As per David Woodhouse suggestion, I am arranging WHENCE to
>> aplhabetical order by driver name to avoid conflicts.
>> Thanks to my son Gurchet Singh to help me in arranging driver names in
>> alphabetical order.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh <jaswinder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Acked-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Now we're trying to push the remaining conversions to request_firmware()
> via the driver authors, putting it into alphabetical order should help
> to avoid the conflicts.
>
> If we could have this in before 2.6.28 (since it's purely cosmetic) or
> immediately thereafter, that would be great.
>

Do you think this patch can merge now or should I wait for merging window.

Thanks
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JSR
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