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Message-Id: <1190949323.6158.66.camel@pasglop>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:15:23 +1000
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
tomas.winkler@...el.com
Subject: Re: iwl4965 and driver merging policy
On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 22:30 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> > It doesn't seem to pull any depedency nor affect any other external
> > piece of code unless I'm missing something, so it's a perfect
> example of
> > what we've been discussing back then: there is just no point not
> merging
> > it at any time right ? :-)
>
> It is queued for 2.6.24. I'm not even sure it was originally posted
> in time for the 2.6.23 merge window, but even if it was there was
> a lot of opposition to merging it until fairly recently. In fact,
> I'm sure there are still some wireless developers that are less than
> happy about merging it now.
>
> Anyway, coming soon to a kernel near you...
Allright, thanks. I was mostly trying to figure out where we standed
with this whole idea that driver additions were not necessarily
constrainted by the merge window (which I think is fair to do) and this
looked like a good example to pick since it affects my new laptop :-)
Out of curiosity, what's the main source of opposition ? Since it's
being shipped by distro or built out of tree by most users -anyway-, I
think it's pretty clear that we'd be better off having it merged asap
rather than trying to figure out what random version was included by
users/distros and try to support it, in addition to wider exposure & all
the yadada of being upstream in the first place.
Ben.
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