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Thank you very much for your clarity : )

> kiranaab ki <kiranaab@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> I also see in MAINTAINERS list that Johannes Berg maintains two trees
>>    mac80211.git,
>>    mac80211-next.git
>>
>> If I want to send the patches for net/mac80211 and net/cfg8011
>> do I need to pull wireless-testing.git and send the patches so that
>> John W Linwille reviews them
>>
>>      or
>>
>> do I need to pull mac80211-next.git and send the patches so that
>> Johannes Berg will review the patches and later John W Linville
>> pulls the changes from Johannes's tree along the development process ?
>
> For new people in the Linux development I would recommend to use
> wireless-testing and submit patches to the linux-wireless mailing, just
> to keep things simple. Johannes when picks up the patch whenever he has
> time.
>
> In rare occasions your patch might conflict with something which is in
> mac80211-next and Johannes might ask you to rebase your patch. But this
> usually happens when making more extensive changes to mac80211, for
> smaller patches this is really rare.
>
> --
> Kalle Valo
>

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