On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 12:21:52AM -0700, Steven Noonan wrote: > On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 11:48 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez > <lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> but wireless-testing is pretty outdated > > > > This is not accurate. > > > > It lacks new patches from Linus' tree, but it has the latest > > and greatest possible wireless patches. John maintains Linux > > wireless so he'll always have more updated patches for wireless than > > Linus. > > > > I've had much less luck running wireless-testing than I have had > running -tip or Linus' trees. Perhaps it -is- inaccurate that it's > outdated, but it's certainly less usable, from what I've seen. The wireless-testing tree is based on an -rc from Linus plus any later wireless patches (minus whatever is still sitting in my mailbox at the time). If it is less usable, it is either due to some wireless breakage (send us bug reports) or Linus is producing crap -rc releases (possible). Current wireless-testing is based on 2.6.27-rc6. Since -rc7 just came-out yesterday... John -- John W. Linville Linux should be at the core linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx of your literate lifestyle. -- 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
