Subject: Re: Firmware patches for SCSI

From: James Bottomley <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:29:03 -0500

On Sat, 2008-12-20 at 01:23 +0530, Jaswinder Singh wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> These SCSI's firmware patches are floating in linux-next from long time :
> 
> 1. qla1280: use request_firmware
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/sfr/linux-next.git;a=commit;h=7c84df1aec1bbb4e43ac9e2ba65b137042279a8d
> 2. advansys: use request_firmware
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/sfr/linux-next.git;a=commit;h=baca2b168d3b7340eac87414c046f7d49de4bf71
> 3. qlogicpti: use request_firmware
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/sfr/linux-next.git;a=commit;h=2c68b5b6db13786a425accc8576217b120f885f2
> 
> Should I need to resend these patches to merge main-stream.

Um ... depends how they got into linux-next.  The head commit just says

Merge commit 'firmware/master'

Which isn't very descriptive of where it came from.  It looks like
either a tree that linux-next shouldn't pull (or one the owner forgot to
push to linus).

James