Hi Sedat, On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 02:18 -0700, Sedat Dilek wrote: > The good news at first: > Your patch applies against 2.6.35-rc1 vanilla (tested with linux-2.6 GIT). That was what you asked for. > BUT.... > This patch should be renamed to "iwl3945-fix-internal-scan-2.6.35-rc1.patch". Feel free to rename it. > It differs from the one in iwiwifi-2.6 (see below). Right, I had to make a change to the patch to get it to apply to 2.6.35-rc1. > Thus, I said to myself let's dig deeper into it. > > First, here is my GIT workflow (I use linux-2.6 rcX, later pull in > wireless-2.6 and finally iwlwifi-2.6 master GIT) > > [CODE] > $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git > > $ git reset --hard v2.6.35-rc1 > > $ git pull git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6.git > master:wireless-2.6 ok so far. > > $ git pull http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/iwlwifi/iwlwifi-2.6.git > master:iwlwifi-2.6 Don't do this. iwlwifi-2.6's master branch is a clone of wireless-testing's master branch plus all the iwlwifi patches that has not been sent to wireless-testing yet. > [/CODE] > > If I do so, I get NON-iwlwifi related stuff pulled in and that should > not be the case? This is how we work. iwlwifi-2.6's master branch tracks upstream wireless development from wireless-testing. > I am not a git tool expert, there might be some magic tricks I do not know. > Thanks for any hints on git tool :-). > > It would be very helpfull (if you want people to follow iwlwifi > development) to have something similiar like in linux-wireless GIT > trees - just a proposal: > > iwlwifi-2.6 -> wireless-2.6 -> net-2.6 -> linux-2.6 > iwlwifi-next-2.6 -> wireless-next-2.6 -> net-next-2.6 -> linux-next > iwlwifi-testing -> wireless-testing iwlwifi-2.6 has a wireless-2.6 and wireless-next-2.6 branch that accomplishes this. We do not see the need for more repositories. > As I said I am no git expert, so I don't know if you want to setup 3 > diverse GIT repsoitories (as John did for wireless-* trees) or have 3 > different GIT branches within existing iwlwifi-2.6 GIT repository as > in drm-2.6 [1]. We have three branches. Reinette -- 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
