netdev - Re: Please pull 'libertas' branch of wireless-2.6

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Date:	Thu, 31 May 2007 17:13:17 -0400
From:	Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Cc:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Please pull 'libertas' branch of wireless-2.6

On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 11:28 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 10:07 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > John W. Linville wrote:
> > > Lots of stuff here...probably best for 2.6.23...
> > 
> > Is this best for Linux users... or just easy for developers?
> > 
> > Won't putting off all these fixes until 2.6.23 leave the driver released 
> > in 2.6.22 in shoddy shape?
> 
> Not really; it more or less works there.  What's gone on since then is
> general driver cleanup (Christoph's comments and more), splitting the
> driver so that other bus types can use it (SDIO for example once
> Pierre's SDIO patches get upstream), wireless extensions fixes, etc.
> 
> > libertas is upstream now, so we cannot pretend that the driver is 
> > completely independent from upstream release cycles and maintenance.
> 
> True, but some of the stuff in here I didn't think would be suitable
> during an -rc cycle, for example the driver splitting and the cleanups
> that don't impact function at all, but are good to do nonetheless.
> 
> > libertas fixes should go upstream immediately, since we are in a bugfix 
> > cycle, and since libertas (from upstream perspective) is about to make 
> > its big debut on the world stage.
> 
> If you think all the bits from this should just go to 2.6.22, that's
> fine with me.  But I don't feel comfortable making that call given what
> I thought were the constraints on pushing changes through during an rc
> cycle.  When the merge window was open, we backported critical bug fixes
> and necessary merge-requirement cleanups to the code in linville's tree,
> but avoided changes that didn't impact function.

Any response on these points yet?  I've got yet more cleanups and a few
other things queued in libertas-2.6 but I'd like to see where this
discussion goes before sending a pull request for the new bits.

Dan

> Dan
> 
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