linux-kernel - ext4, wireless (was Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1)

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Date:	Thu, 08 Mar 2007 04:59:17 -0500
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: ext4, wireless (was Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1)

Andrew Morton wrote:
> - The wireless changes in here need a lot of testers, please.  It is major
>   rework.
> 
>   Of course the config files got all changed around so `make oldconfig'
>   breaks everything.  I was able to get ipw2200 working after some fumbling,
>   but perhaps John can tell people what has been changed in there?  What has
>   happened, from a big picture perspective?

The big big pictures is that Linux is getting a new wireless stack, one 
that active developers seem to agree on.  It /should/ support all the 
old wireless-tools binaries out there, except the wext/netlink stuff 
that people want to kill.


> - Re-added the ext4 development tree to the -mm lineup.  It has stuff in
>   it.  

IMO I've been a bit disappointed at the rate of development.  I had 
hoped that patches to ext4 would be making it into mainline more rapidly.

	Jeff


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