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Re: [PATCH 00/14] major mac80211 restructuring/cleanups

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On 7/17/07, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 7/11/07, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 08:35:00PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > I don't really see the big problem anyhow. As long as we don't want any
> > patches in upstream that depend on the refactoring we can delay pushing
> > the refactoring upstream. Once we do get patches we can decide to either
> > make two versions of them or at some point push the refactoring upstream
> > as well; problems will only arise if we delay too much pushing patches
> > upstream that are before the refactoring, those would need to be
> > rediffed.
>
> The normal Linux aproach is to push the refactoring as soon as possible.
> That way the other changes have to be rebased once and than you're done
> with it.  If you keep the big refactoring in some staging tree porting
> things forth and back will be an endless pain.

This is true but the idea is to try to merge wireless-dev into
wireless-2.6 ASAP. We shouldn't stop wireless-dev tree changes as that
is what we need to help with development. I can only see this helping
us down the road. Jiri -- are you sure? :)

Nevermind... Johannes' patches won't apply anymore, except for the
ones he pinged about for recently...

 Luis
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