Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Aug 2022 08:33:35 +0200 | From | Grzegorz Szymaszek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] staging: r8188eu: add firmware dependency |
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On Wed, Aug 03, 2022 at 08:08:31AM +0200, Greg KH wrote: > This looks good, and I'll apply it after 5.20-rc1 is out,
I didn’t Cc stable since the “Submitting patches” guide says it’s for “severe bugs”, but would it be possible to backport the patch to the older kernels?
> but you might want to send a follow-on patch that removes the hard-coded > string in 2 places in the driver, and just puts it into a single define > somewhere, to make it a bit easier over time.
Good idea, will do so. I didn’t check if the filename is already used. Would something like “this patch depends on patch…” (again from the guide) be enough (assuming I will send the new patch before this one is applied)?
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