rt2x00 updated in wireless-dev

rt2x00 updated in wireless-dev

[John W. Linville]

I have applied the 30 or so patches Ivo sent to the linux-wireless
list a couple of days ago.  Hopefully that brings the rt2x00 driver
in wireless-dev almost up-to-date?

Via wireless-dev, the rt2x00 driver family is now in -mm and in
Fedora rawhide, possibly elsewhere.  I think it will be best for all
concerned to keep wireless-dev closely synchronized with rt2x00 fixes
and developments.  I hope you agree.

Ivo seems to have (almost!) mastered the patch posting process for
upstream.  His last round of patches were easy to handle and merge.
They would have been merged faster, if there weren't so many of them
all at once.  A higher frequency of patches posted to linux-wireless
will continue to improve the merge delay upstream.

The rt2x00 project is important to the upstream community, and hence
to all the distros and their users.  I appreciate and applaud your
efforts in bringing the rt2x00 driver family this far.  I hope you
will now take the opportunity to more closely integrate your efforts
with those of the greater linux-wireless community.

Thanks,

John
-- 
John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com

Re: rt2x00 updated in wireless-dev

[Ivo van Doorn]

On Friday 02 March 2007 16:31, John W. Linville wrote:
> I have applied the 30 or so patches Ivo sent to the linux-wireless
> list a couple of days ago. 

Thanks!

> Hopefully that brings the rt2x00 driver 
> in wireless-dev almost up-to-date?

Well the only patches that are not in are:
	- development stuff of today, which is still a bit buggy and not completed
	- software sequence support for rt2400pci/rt2500pci,
	  but that depends on the mac80211 patch that had been send earlier.
	- rfkill support patch. The last RFC I had send
	  out has not yet been replied, although Dmitry has send me a message
          he has seen the mail and will reply as soon as he has time.

> Via wireless-dev, the rt2x00 driver family is now in -mm and in
> Fedora rawhide, possibly elsewhere.  I think it will be best for all
> concerned to keep wireless-dev closely synchronized with rt2x00 fixes
> and developments.  I hope you agree.

I absolutely agree, unfortunately lack of time on my side prevented me often
to create those regular patches, although that is just a weak excuse since
I had made enough patches into rt2x00. ;)

> Ivo seems to have (almost!) mastered the patch posting process for
> upstream.  His last round of patches were easy to handle and merge.
> They would have been merged faster, if there weren't so many of them
> all at once.  A higher frequency of patches posted to linux-wireless
> will continue to improve the merge delay upstream.

Well like I mentioned in the patch mail, I have experimented a bit with git
this time. So hopefully there will be a git tree within a few weeks from where
you can pull new updates. :)

> The rt2x00 project is important to the upstream community, and hence
> to all the distros and their users.  I appreciate and applaud your
> efforts in bringing the rt2x00 driver family this far.  I hope you
> will now take the opportunity to more closely integrate your efforts
> with those of the greater linux-wireless community.

I'll do my best. :)

Ivo