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Re: Please pull libertas-2.6

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> FWIW, waiting for the merge window is generally frowned upon. 
> If at all possible you should submit patches now or ASAP so
> that Jeff and I have a reasonable chance to review them and
> they can make their way into -mm for some testing BEFORE the
> merge window opens.

Yeah, but I'm still very much unfinished. It can:

* detect the card
* setup the IO window
* setup the ISR
* download helper firmware
* download real firmware
* react to some (not ALL!) interrupts

But, for example, it can not:

* send commands to the device (I'm close, but
  not yet there)
* receive results from the device (dito)
* receive data from the device (hey, even skb's
  are new to me)
* send data to the device

So, in short: the driver isn't yet usable in any way. And so I 
doubt you would want to see my current skeleton :-)



I referred to the merge window because I doubt that I'll get my 
code early enought into a submitable form -- and if I can't it 
submit to YOU before the merge window closes, then you can't put 
it upstream either. And so it might be that the libertas_cs code 
will end up in 2.6.24, not 2.6.23. And Dan even mentioned 
2.6.22, which is out-of-the-question, because a new driver is 
hardly a fix.

So, my plan is to submit the driver (or the patchset for the 
driver) to either libertas-dev or wireless-dev as soon as I get 
my first association to an AP via it. We can than think if the 
driver should be added to some GIT tree. From then on I'll start 
sending incremental patches.

Do you think that makes sense?
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