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Re: [PATCH] ssb: Make extif driver compilation depend on extif config

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On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 02:02:19 +0200
Michael Buesch <mb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > I'm hopelessly confused by the ssb stuff.  I'm not sure if I have all the
> > right stuff, all the latest stuff and I don't understand why some is going
> > into git-wireless and some is not.
> 
> Everything is going into git-wireless.
> git-wireless contains latest ssb. _but_ John complained
> about that. And he is right. SSB is not strictly wireless core.
> So I thought it was best to get ssb into mainline as soon as
> possible. So -mm is really the way to go into mainline.
> My plan was to merge mainline with the next merge window.
> 
> > I'd prefer to be dumbly pulling a tree which Michael controls rather than
> > trying to master it all in -mm, if possible.  A git tree or a quilt tree in
> > some open dir somewhere would suit?
> 
> It's a bit difficult, as bcm43xx depends on it. Which again depends
> on the wireless tree. :)
> So basically we are stuck with maintaining it in wireless-dev.
> 
> I don't know what your policy is with pulling from wireless-dev.
> So wireless-dev currently contains latest SSB. So if you pull from
> wireless-dev, you'll also get latest SSB. Though, if we want to
> merge SSB soon, we need it broken-out. That is what I was trying
> to do.

Yeah, after dropping all the ssb stuff, my build is now busted because
the bit of git-wireless which I have wants SSB bits for BCM43XX.

argh.  I'll try disabling b44 so I can get a release out the door.
Please, just give me some internally-consistent tree(s) to pull??

Thanks.
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