[Gta04-owner] wifi patches in letux-base?

[Andreas Kemnade]

Hi,

On Sat, 23 Jan 2016 13:13:03 +0100
"H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns at goldelico.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Am 23.01.2016 um 11:36 schrieb Andreas Kemnade <andreas at kemnade.info>:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I found out that there is stuff in letux-base which is not upstreamed.
> > Is everything there considered not upstreamable? What is considered a
> > good fix and what not?
> 
> Well, some things in letux-base are purely historical and inherited from 3.7-neil...
> So they might be wrong today.
> 
That is all 2013/2014. So it is not that historcal

$ git shortlog --no-merges v4.4...goldelico2/letux-base -- drivers/net/wireless/libertas 
Dan Williams (1):
      libertas/sdio: fix releasing memory twice.

H. Nikolaus Schaller (4):
      [...] two patches and their reverts...
NeilBrown (4):
      libertas/sdio: make sure card enters power-off when firmware is loaded.
      libertas - hack to fix suspend.
      libertas/sdio: make power management dependant on MMC_CAP_POWER_OFF_CARD
      libertas/sdio: simplify suspend/resume.

Why do we have a patch from the former libertas maintainers in letux-base and
not upstream?! 
> > 
> > The reason I ask is that there are some suspend problems I understand and
> > that touches code which is modified in letux-base.
> 
> Well, if your code is better, we can remove all WiFi historical patches from
> letux base and put yours on top (which is then the same as linus/master for this
> subsystem).
> 
I am still analyzing. I will probably give these patches an extra review.
I just wanted to know if it is known that we need to find 1000 users to fight
1000 gnomes or things like that for getting these things upstreamed ;-)

Regards,
Andreas
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