On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 11:28 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 10:07 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > John W. Linville wrote: > > > Lots of stuff here...probably best for 2.6.23... > > > > Is this best for Linux users... or just easy for developers? > > > > Won't putting off all these fixes until 2.6.23 leave the driver released > > in 2.6.22 in shoddy shape? > > Not really; it more or less works there. What's gone on since then is > general driver cleanup (Christoph's comments and more), splitting the > driver so that other bus types can use it (SDIO for example once > Pierre's SDIO patches get upstream), wireless extensions fixes, etc. > > > libertas is upstream now, so we cannot pretend that the driver is > > completely independent from upstream release cycles and maintenance. > > True, but some of the stuff in here I didn't think would be suitable > during an -rc cycle, for example the driver splitting and the cleanups > that don't impact function at all, but are good to do nonetheless. > > > libertas fixes should go upstream immediately, since we are in a bugfix > > cycle, and since libertas (from upstream perspective) is about to make > > its big debut on the world stage. > > If you think all the bits from this should just go to 2.6.22, that's > fine with me. But I don't feel comfortable making that call given what > I thought were the constraints on pushing changes through during an rc > cycle. When the merge window was open, we backported critical bug fixes > and necessary merge-requirement cleanups to the code in linville's tree, > but avoided changes that didn't impact function. Any response on these points yet? I've got yet more cleanups and a few other things queued in libertas-2.6 but I'd like to see where this discussion goes before sending a pull request for the new bits. Dan > Dan > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
