Re: virtual access poitns (ath5k/mac80211)

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

On 08/10/2010 09:54 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Ben Greear<greearb@candelatech.com>  wrote:

>> You would not believe how hard it is to keep up with the wireless tree.
>>   Last time,
>> by the time we had something stable, upstream had changed too much to merge.
>
> This is why you should not do your development outside of
> wireless-testing. If you are doing development on a stable kernel tree
> then you will likely run into huge issues. You should do development
> on wireless-testing.git, always rebase when John has a new update, and
> break your changes out into a small changes as possible. If you follow
> these basic rules I believe you will likely have better luck with
> keeping your code up to date.

That sounds nice, but at that time I was carrying a lot of other patches
needed to make my test environment work.  Fortunately, .35 pretty much
works out of the box, so I can develop on pristine upstream kernels now.

Thanks,
Ben

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Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
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