netdev - Re: Merging SSB upstream

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Message-ID: <20070506020051.GA30917@tuxdriver.com>
Date:	Sat, 5 May 2007 22:00:51 -0400
From:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
To:	Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>
Cc:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Gary Zambrano <zambrano@...adcom.com>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	bcm43xx-dev@...ts.berlios.de, ralf@...ux-mips.org
Subject: Re: Merging SSB upstream

On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 03:03:17AM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:
> So, now that mac80211 is merged upstream, I think it's
> time to merge SSB and the b44-ssb port upstream.
> Note that bcm43xx-mac80211 is _not_ ready for upstream, yet.
 
ACK, unfortunately.

> What do you think? I'd like to merge ssb as-is, although
> the embedded-device parts are not quite finished, yet.
> But they don't interfere with the non-embedded parts used
> by b44 and the bcm43xx PCI cards.

How much testing have you (and others) done w/ b44?  I had to remove
the b44 ssb changes from fedora because a) users reported problems;
and b) I was more worried about wireless than b44+ssb. (sorry!)

So, has anyone been using b44 in -mm?

> So we _could_ remove the ssb-mips code, but I don't like to
> do that for better maintainability. It doesn't hurt anyone IMO.

I guess I don't see a problem w/ merging the mips part, as long as the
b44 part has been thoroughly tested.  I wonder if Ralf has an opinion?

John
-- 
John W. Linville
linville@...driver.com
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