Re: Plan for ath6kl cleanup

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 10:29 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 06:36:00AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 04:13:24PM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
> > > We have been thinking about how to get ath6kl out from staging and get
> > > it to a first class citizen under drivers/net/wireless. There's quite a
> > > lot of work to do get ath6kl cleaned up and the prospect of doing all
> > > that through the staging-next tree wasn't that exciting. We would be
> > > sending hundreds of patches and it would take a long time to cleanup the
> > > driver. And the disconnection from the wireless core development also
> > > sounded very daunting (cfg80211 API changes etc.).
> > 
> > This sounds like, "We don't like the kernel development model, it
> > requires us to break everything up into small patches and show our work
> > to everyone."
> 
> It's not the kernel development mode, it's something that you try to
> impose on staging users.  Creating a more less new driver from a pig
> pile of junk doesn't make sense minimized patches with micro-review.

I tried it once on ath6kl.
Ended up with ~300 patches and a very clean tree.

http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/trivial-mods.git/shortlog/refs/heads/20110108_ath6kl

The coordination with atheros and greg was balky.