Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Aug 2022 08:37:56 +0200 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] staging: r8188eu: add firmware dependency |
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On Wed, Aug 03, 2022 at 08:33:35AM +0200, Grzegorz Szymaszek wrote: > 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?
Yes, I will tag it for backporting.
> > 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)?
No need to add the "this patch depends on", I'll know that implicitly as it was sent after this one :)
thanks,
greg k-h
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