Re: [PATCH 0/4] firmware loader: misc changes

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Sun Oct 21 2012 - 12:13:41 EST


On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 03:55:45PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > The first two are fixes' patch, the 3rd one is to enable
> > caching firmware for direct loading, and the last one is
> > a cleanup patch.
> >
> > drivers/base/firmware_class.c | 266 +++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
> > 1 file changed, 151 insertions(+), 115 deletions(-)
>
> Hi Greg,
>
> Could you push the patchset or at least the first 3 fix patches
> onto 3.7-rc?
>
> BTW: 3/4 is still a fix, since linus's direct loading breaks firmware cache
> which has been used by some drivers(such as: ath9k)

Yes, sorry, they are still in my queue, I was working on other fixes
for other subsystems this past week. I'll get to these tomorrow.

greg k-h
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