On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 10:29 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 06:36:00AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 04:13:24PM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote: > > > We have been thinking about how to get ath6kl out from staging and get > > > it to a first class citizen under drivers/net/wireless. There's quite a > > > lot of work to do get ath6kl cleaned up and the prospect of doing all > > > that through the staging-next tree wasn't that exciting. We would be > > > sending hundreds of patches and it would take a long time to cleanup the > > > driver. And the disconnection from the wireless core development also > > > sounded very daunting (cfg80211 API changes etc.). > > > > This sounds like, "We don't like the kernel development model, it > > requires us to break everything up into small patches and show our work > > to everyone." > > It's not the kernel development mode, it's something that you try to > impose on staging users. Creating a more less new driver from a pig > pile of junk doesn't make sense minimized patches with micro-review. I tried it once on ath6kl. Ended up with ~300 patches and a very clean tree. http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/trivial-mods.git/shortlog/refs/heads/20110108_ath6kl The coordination with atheros and greg was balky. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
