On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 10:42 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > David, > > The compat [0] / compat-wireless [1] [2] projects have received quite > a bit of love of the years to the point we now have 3 subsystems > backported: Ethernet, Bluetooth and 802.11. Ozan Çağlayan, a Linux > Foundation Google Summer of Code student is folding in right now drm > driver support. At the request of the community, specifically those > part of the Linux Foundation driver working group [3], we are going to > be renaming the project to compat-drivers soon after drm is integrated > and will be housing documentation under the kernel.org infrastructure > [4] under this new name. It'll take some time for us to migrate the > documentation / releases but do not see major issues with that, it > will just take a bit of time but hope to have it done for the next > stable release based on the next kernel stable release. At this time > for patches we do have a Linux Foundation mailing list but have had > issues with it for a while now so we keep using linux-wireless for > patches. Given that our focus is to always prioritize upstream and > always try to work with solutions that ensure vendors are focusing on > upstream solutions and prioritizing upstream [5] I was hoping we can > get a mailing list set up on vger for the project, perhaps > backports@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, so we don't flood the other mailing lists > with random kernel backport junk. Please let me know if this is > reasonable. > > [0] https://github.com/mcgrof/compat > [1] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download/ > [2] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download/stable/ > [3] http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/driver-backport/group > [4] https://backports.wiki.kernel.org > [5] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download/stable/#Additional_patches_to_stable_releases > Hi, I am wondering why people are not consistent in naming - here again a good example. The workgroup at Linux Foundation is called "driver-backport". You (Luis) are talking about a rename to "compat-drivers". And then the ML and wiki have the name "backports". So "backports" is for me is a bit confusing! That reminds me when I first read about "AAArgh64!!!" stuff which was in the end called mips64 to keep consistency to other existing arches. So, just to fool the world a bit more: What about "linux-backports" or why didn't you keep the "driver-backport" name? Just my 0.02EUR. Regards, - Sedat - > Luis > -- > 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 -- 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
