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

[Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>]

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