From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, marcelo@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Please pull 'revert-libertas' branch of wireless-2.6 (was Re: Please pull 'libertas' branch of wireless-2.6)
Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 11:38:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070507153848.GD5125@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <463F443A.5000306@garzik.org>
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 11:22:34AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Open source is about release early, release often. Not "hide code in a
> dark corner until Christoph thinks it is perfect." We have high
> standards for upstream merged code, but that standard is not perfection.
> Perfect is the enemy of good.
>
> I would rather see the libertas-2.6 git changes pulled into upstream,
> and am not inclined to revert a WORKING DRIVER at this point, a driver
> that is actively maintained and has seen quite a bit of improvement
> since it initially appeared.
Perhaps I was a bit hasty. Given Dan's response I thought that I
had missed something.
But, you are right -- the driver works now, and Dan and company are
sure to be around to keep working on it.
> Plus, that leaves the kernel history less polluted.
Consider the request withdrawn.
Thanks,
John
--
John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-07 16:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2007-02-28 1:01 ` Please pull 'libertas' branch of wireless-2.6 John W. Linville
2007-03-03 1:29 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-03-03 5:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-03-04 15:36 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2007-03-05 14:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-03-07 18:16 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2007-03-07 22:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-03-08 2:40 ` Dan Williams
2007-03-08 8:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-03-08 14:06 ` Michael Buesch
2007-05-07 10:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-07 12:03 ` Dan Williams
2007-05-07 14:11 ` Please pull 'revert-libertas' branch of wireless-2.6 (was Re: Please pull 'libertas' branch of wireless-2.6) John W. Linville
2007-05-07 15:22 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-07 15:38 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2007-05-07 15:47 ` Dan Williams
2007-05-07 15:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-07 16:44 ` John W. Linville
2007-05-08 6:12 ` Matt Mackall
2007-05-08 8:28 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-08 20:59 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-08 23:31 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-08 9:47 ` Pekka Enberg
2007-05-08 20:27 ` Please pull 'revert-libertas' branch of wireless-2.6 David Miller
2007-05-08 20:55 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-08 21:29 ` Dan Williams
2007-05-08 22:40 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-08 23:41 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2007-05-09 1:27 ` Dan Williams
2007-05-09 21:25 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-05-09 21:41 ` Dan Williams
2007-05-09 21:41 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-10 18:35 ` Dan Williams
2007-05-09 21:46 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-05-10 16:56 ` Dan Williams
2007-05-10 20:48 ` Dan Williams
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