On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 01:44:16PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > On 09/13/2011 12:44 PM, John W. Linville wrote: > > > >We are going to have to find a way to get brcmsmac into the > >wireless-next tree to make it feasible for the Broadcom guys to get > >bcma support into that driver. Do you agree? > > > >We could move it under the drivers/net/wireless tree. Or, maybe I > >could negotiate with Greg to keep it under the drivers/staging tree > >but to let me manage it under wireless-next. Or...? Do you have > >any thoughts on this? > > Based on the earlier comments, I still see lots of problems in > getting brcmsmac into the drivers/net/wireless tree; however, the > solution where Greg lets you manage that part of drivers/staging > does not seem to cause too many problems, as long as he is kept in > the loop. If you could push those changes through Greg rather than > DaveM, I don't think he would lose any control. I don't think there is any reasonable way to push one tree through two different upstream paths, unless both upstreams want all the tree has to offer. I don't see a way to both segregate brcmsmac commits from the rest of the tree and yet have the bcma commits available to brcmsmac. John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx might be all we have. Be ready. -- 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
