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

[Andreas Kemnade]

Hi,

I have done some further analysis:

On Sat, 23 Jan 2016 23:08:01 +0100
"H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns at goldelico.com> wrote:

> 
> Am 23.01.2016 um 19:03 schrieb Andreas Kemnade <andreas at kemnade.info>:
> 
> > 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.
> > 
superseeded by 
libertas: move firmware lifetime handling to firmware.c
1dfba3060fe7ee03ccec25a91d35085142dfc295
probably merged with that to the proper thing.


> > NeilBrown (4):
> >      libertas/sdio: make sure card enters power-off when firmware is loaded.

falso alert
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_sdio.c?id=d94248ac2aef78e39a76321458a78ba7805dba2e
> >      libertas - hack to fix suspend.
> >      libertas/sdio: make power management dependant on MMC_CAP_POWER_OFF_CARD
> >      libertas/sdio: simplify suspend/resume.
> > 
These things are not upstreamed and require more analysis.
I will check these.
Still waiting to be ported from my 3.7-neil-plus-plus:
8b9da484f3f4e7129debf887f373dd2d95f96068
wireless:libertas: fix race conditions on resume
That is definitively needed in recent kernels.

Regards
Andreas
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