On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 4:42 PM, David Shwatrz <dshwatrz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > First, I hope you feel better soon. > > Second: > Looking at the patches at the mailing list, I do not see > that anywhere it says against which git tree they were made. > It could be : wireless-next-2.6,wireless-2.6, and wireless-testing. > > I guess that there are many cases in which a patch can be applied to > two of these trees (or maybe all three of them), > whereas there are times in which it can be applied to only one git tree. > > How is it determined to which tree the patches should be > applied ? > > Rgs, > DS > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 4:28 PM, John W. Linville > <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:02:22AM +0200, Kalle Valo wrote: >>> David Shwatrz <dshwatrz@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >>> >>> > In this occasion may I ask - what is the wireless-testing git tree? >>> > is it based on wireless-next-2.6 or on wireless-2.6 tree? >>> >>> It's based on Linus' rc releases and has all the wireless patches >>> which have been under development. I think John cherry picks the >>> patches from wireless-testing to wireless-2.6 or wireless-next-2.6. So >>> wireless-testing contains the bleeding edge wireless patches and if >>> John thinks they are good enough, he submits them forward. >>> >>> Please correct me if I have understood something wrong. >> >> That is basically right. >> >> In the past patches often went to wireless-testing and to >> wireless-next-2.6/wireless-2.6 at the about the same time. However >> upstream standards have tightened in ways that make me feel it is >> appropriate to give patches more public testing even before sending >> them for -next. >> >> In this case, I was also sick all last week which has slowed thing >> a bit more... >> >> Thanks, >> >> 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 > The target tree used to be wireless-2.6's "everything" branch. There was a lot of confusion over people mistakenly pulling "master" instead of "everything" ("master" is the default), so the "everything" branch was replaced by a separate repo, wireless-testing. -- Vista: [V]iruses, [I]ntruders, [S]pyware, [T]rojans and [A]dware. :-) -- 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
