From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: "Rafał Miłecki" <zajec5@gmail.com>,
"Francis Moreau" <francis.moro@gmail.com>,
"Arend van Spriel" <arend@broadcom.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@suse.de
Subject: Re: About the patch: "staging: brcm80211: only enable brcmsmac if bcma is not set"
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:10:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110913191054.GI11772@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E6FA480.5030500@lwfinger.net>
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 01:44:16PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 09/13/2011 12:44 PM, John W. Linville wrote:
> >
> >We are going to have to find a way to get brcmsmac into the
> >wireless-next tree to make it feasible for the Broadcom guys to get
> >bcma support into that driver. Do you agree?
> >
> >We could move it under the drivers/net/wireless tree. Or, maybe I
> >could negotiate with Greg to keep it under the drivers/staging tree
> >but to let me manage it under wireless-next. Or...? Do you have
> >any thoughts on this?
>
> Based on the earlier comments, I still see lots of problems in
> getting brcmsmac into the drivers/net/wireless tree; however, the
> solution where Greg lets you manage that part of drivers/staging
> does not seem to cause too many problems, as long as he is kept in
> the loop. If you could push those changes through Greg rather than
> DaveM, I don't think he would lose any control.
I don't think there is any reasonable way to push one tree through
two different upstream paths, unless both upstreams want all the tree
has to offer. I don't see a way to both segregate brcmsmac commits
from the rest of the tree and yet have the bcma commits available
to brcmsmac.
John
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-13 19:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-08 8:46 About the patch: "staging: brcm80211: only enable brcmsmac if bcma is not set" Francis Moreau
2011-09-12 21:27 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-09-13 7:03 ` Francis Moreau
2011-09-13 13:28 ` John W. Linville
2011-09-13 13:37 ` Francis Moreau
2011-09-13 13:44 ` John W. Linville
2011-09-13 20:25 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-09-14 6:53 ` Francis Moreau
2011-09-14 9:27 ` Arend Van Spriel
2011-09-14 9:11 ` Arend Van Spriel
2011-09-14 9:15 ` Francis Moreau
2011-09-16 7:29 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-09-13 17:44 ` John W. Linville
2011-09-13 18:44 ` Larry Finger
2011-09-13 19:10 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2011-09-13 20:23 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-09-14 8:42 ` Greg KH
2011-09-16 10:43 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-09-16 10:52 ` Arend Van Spriel
2011-09-16 10:55 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-09-16 11:13 ` Arend van Spriel
2011-09-16 11:20 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-09-16 11:25 ` Arend van Spriel
2011-09-16 11:34 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-09-14 9:23 ` Arend Van Spriel
2011-09-14 20:18 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-09-15 11:53 ` Arend van Spriel
2012-01-11 11:40 ` Francis Moreau
2012-01-11 12:24 ` Arend van Spriel
2012-01-11 13:13 ` Francis Moreau
2012-01-11 14:26 ` Arend van Spriel
2012-01-11 14:30 ` Francis Moreau
2012-01-11 15:41 ` Francis Moreau
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