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Re: Why were patches reverted on 2010-09-21? (carl9170 and others)

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On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 6:23 AM, John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I swear, I should just stop doing wireless-testing at all...
>
> Let me explain...again...
>
> The history in wireless-testing is dirty. ÂIt contains crap like
> these reverts only so that I can continue to pull cleanly from
> wireless-next-2.6 and wireless-2.6 even after I have had to rebase
> them. ÂOtherwise, I would have to do lots of pointless fixups in a
> tree that will never be pulled by Linus anyway. ÂThe ugly history is
> the alternative to rebasing, so that those who pull can do so without
> git complaining.
>
> The point of wireless-testing is to provide something between linux-2.6
> and linux-next, something that is close to the stabilising release but
> with currently pending wireless patches. ÂIt is not intended to be
> a basis for historical research. ÂDon't use it for that.

Since we get these questions quite often I've taken what you have
written and merged it here:

http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/process#wireless-testing.git

  Luis
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