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Re: Revised wireless tree management practices

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On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 6:37 AM, John W. Linville
<linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 06:31:02AM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 6:04 AM, Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> > "John W. Linville" <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> >
>> >> I still see value in a tree that has a reasonably stable base and
>> >> contains both wireless fixes and wireless features.
>> >
>> > I agree, it makes things a lot easier.
>> >
>> >> So, I think wireless-testing remains as the focal point for wireless
>> >> LAN testing and development. I'll just be getting patches there in a
>> >> slightly different process.
>> >
>> > Sounds very good. So I'll continue using wireless-testing. Thanks.
>>
>> But we use wireless-next as base though if we want to send you pull
>> requests, ay?
>
> Yes, that is correct -- people that want to send patches (or simply
> test) should use wireless-testing.  People that want to send pull
> requests need to have trees based on wireless-2.6 (for fixes)

Typically we have relied on you to push fixes into wireless-2.6, does
this change a bit now in that we should try to keep better track of
stable fixes and send them to you instead if we're doing the pull
request method?

> and/or
> wireless-next-2.6 (for features).  If you are sending pull requests
> and have a feature that depends on a fix then we'll have to coordinate
> to make sure the right bits get into the right trees.

OK, got it.

  Luis
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