On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Stefanik Gábor<netrolller.3d@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:> 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. We also try to keep this type of information up to date in our wiki: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Documentation Luis��.n��������+%������w��{.n�����{���zW����ܨ}���Ơz�j:+v�����w����ޙ��&�)ߡ�a����z�ޗ���ݢj��w�f
