Re: [stable] [PATCH 2/2] iwlwifi: unify iwl_setup_rxon_timing

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Dec 16 2009 - 22:30:11 EST


On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 09:52:15AM +0800, Ike Panhc wrote:
> reinette chatre wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 22:46 -0800, Ike Panhc wrote:
> >
> >> But Please consider applying the first patch (change IWL6000_UCODE_API_MAX
> >> to v4) to 2.6.31-stable tree. It will be good to use v4 firmware on iwl6000.
> >
> > Please no. This will effectively enable 6000 series in 2.6.31. We did
> > not target 2.6.31 for 6000 series enabling and more patches, which are
> > in 2.6.32, are required for 6000 series to work well.
> >
> > Reinette
> >
> Got it, so backport any patch for iwl6000 to 2.6.31-stable is not reasonable.

Bugfixes are fine, but that is not what this is.

Please go read the file, Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt to give
you an idea of what we are expecting here.

thanks,

greg k-h
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