Search Linux Wireless

Re: effort to merge iwl3945 into iwlagn

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:32:13AM +0800, Zhu Yi wrote:

> You may probably know we plan to merge the iwl3945 driver into iwlagn.
> So we will have a single iwlagn driver supporting 3945/4965/5000/later
> devices. This removes the duplication between iwl3945 and iwlagn and
> should be easier to maintain in the future.
> 
> We started the merge last week and we have now queued some patches in
> our GIT (branch iwl3945, patches are between upstream..iwl3945):
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/iwlwifi/iwlwifi-2.6.git;a=shortlog;h=iwl3945
> All of them are code movement and no functional change.
> 
> As the .29 merge window will be closed soon and it's the holiday season,
> we plan to get this done (iwl3945 will be completely removed) by .30
> kernel. What do you think we should do for these patches now? Do you
> want to merge them into wireless-test master or create an own branch for
> it? It might bring you some burden for managing them in
> wireless-testing. But we really want to avoid the patch bomb when we
> submit the final patchset altogether for .30.

I can keep them in wireless-testing until after the 2.6.29 merge
window closes.  Go ahead and send them.

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

[Index of Archives]     [Linux Host AP]     [ATH6KL]     [Linux Bluetooth]     [Linux Netdev]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Linux Kernel]     [IDE]     [Security]     [Git]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux ATA RAID]     [Samba]     [Device Mapper]
  Powered by Linux