From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from xc.sipsolutions.net ([83.246.72.84]:56147 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752560AbYJ1Shy (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:37:54 -0400 Subject: Re: rtl2860 driver in mainline? From: Johannes Berg To: Greg KH Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Thorsten Leemhuis , rt2400-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20081028170838.GA4818@kroah.com> References: <20081028004915.GA3442@kroah.com> <4906B944.4010105@leemhuis.info> <1225180598.3796.66.camel@johannes.berg> <43e72e890810280102i3df34e2h9bf281c5d1e00a48@mail.gmail.com> <1225181562.3796.76.camel@johannes.berg> <20081028170838.GA4818@kroah.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-NxZIzt7K6PurtfR/Nnc3" Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:35:52 +0100 Message-Id: <1225218952.3598.39.camel@johannes.berg> (sfid-20081028_193756_382628_82C22D1C) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-NxZIzt7K6PurtfR/Nnc3 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 10:08 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > "Work on", or "USE". >=20 > The problem is, users have this hardware, and they want to run Linux on > it. Many distros already support this hardware with the "crap" driver, > so we might as well add that to the kernel tree so they at least get the > latest "crap" so that users have an easier time of it. >=20 > Now, the fact that there is a competing driver being developed outside > of the tree does make this a bit more complicated. However, as it > doesn't work yet, there's not much we can do about including it, right? >=20 > So adding the driver to the "crap" tree makes users happy in that they > can use their hardware. I'll support the "crap" to a point, and no one > has to do any API changes to the drivers/staging/ tree either, I can > easily handle that. >=20 > Then, when the "correct" driver is finished, I will drop the crap driver > at the same time the "correct" one is added to the tree. >=20 > This way, everyone wins, right? Only if the point is "use" rather than "work on". As far as I understood about staging, the point was more "work on" which would direct effort to the wrong driver. johannes --=-NxZIzt7K6PurtfR/Nnc3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJJB1uFAAoJEKVg1VMiehFYt78QAJ+Wc9OldgUJOT83sFiYXhyE PPKOEfn05mLbmeGvzAdwu4/dArtCLAXpWKHhAvPIaCSvY4mXWs18RFG2omytB8Oh fbvWKIHlm/59hQoo/GBxuv5ptxV21dJ1/Jat77JNvME6jiDoVDysv6bptq1xJtSb amtgNsHYSzO1ESEoZhK9v6jtDuQVSKScNIFPPLRYxf2ZA+3wSX1+P4K6XDvMCYVz z2OLxIhMMbw/yLvfr8RvfylG++ZAfMyXcFLR07feFmtRBEbjXvmA2iDeSwfcicMa /o2DkX/EiElWJk/eiktNaWdDOiu2WBHtuNXqwgpAvvvRARdh6TIzlii7BHkNF7Le JoK/+rcCPFRDIe5v42P09oBzIzlf9Q1mm+xuOq7Ttl/pvZkMRLGwovcnKn1Q5B9K w5NhM/K3e5yXpe0cmkgbOO6FxbPMBft/R+FCF8vbu96eMEll/s3/0asnR416G6Sq rKeOKt1rsOOvl1ahfjR6ndUUg5ljqqcnPqzn470xKNRsfQUvfY7WpcbzMTEuHSn1 EV1roG/aHzBsmOvBizlNcxWHYPrqlyyqovJOCtvPogr4Syge9rBSQi/MT8RODHO8 Rnz3qzKeFUs6Iu9JzBOO+rdE0afSFiWCXv3RuErpHLV4hdegJoToTSpBZHBqihOA 7qCm5If31SHyqubSlvs1 =JRwt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-NxZIzt7K6PurtfR/Nnc3--