From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/14] major mac80211 restructuring/cleanups
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 21:20:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070711202035.GA15457@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1184092500.3738.15.camel@johannes.berg>
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 08:35:00PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> I don't really see the big problem anyhow. As long as we don't want any
> patches in upstream that depend on the refactoring we can delay pushing
> the refactoring upstream. Once we do get patches we can decide to either
> make two versions of them or at some point push the refactoring upstream
> as well; problems will only arise if we delay too much pushing patches
> upstream that are before the refactoring, those would need to be
> rediffed.
The normal Linux aproach is to push the refactoring as soon as possible.
That way the other changes have to be rebased once and than you're done
with it. If you keep the big refactoring in some staging tree porting
things forth and back will be an endless pain.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-11 20:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-21 22:16 [PATCH 00/14] major mac80211 restructuring/cleanups Johannes Berg
2007-06-21 22:16 ` [PATCH 02/14] mac80211: move QoS rx handlers into rx.c Johannes Berg
2007-06-21 22:16 ` [PATCH 03/14] mac80211: rx cleanups (1) Johannes Berg
2007-06-21 22:16 ` [PATCH 04/14] mac80211: split ieee80211_rx_h_check handler Johannes Berg
2007-06-21 22:16 ` [PATCH 05/14] mac80211: split up __ieee80211_rx Johannes Berg
2007-06-21 22:16 ` [PATCH 06/14] mac80211: fix bug for per-sta stats Johannes Berg
2007-06-21 22:16 ` [PATCH 07/14] mac80211: rx cleanups (2) Johannes Berg
2007-06-21 22:16 ` [PATCH 09/14] mac80211: remove some unnecessary includes Johannes Berg
2007-06-21 22:16 ` [PATCH 10/14] mac80211: split out some key functions from ieee80211.c Johannes Berg
2007-06-21 22:16 ` [PATCH 11/14] mac80211: regdomain.c needs to include ieee80211_i.h Johannes Berg
2007-06-21 22:16 ` [PATCH 12/14] mac80211: move some rate control functions out of ieee80211.c Johannes Berg
2007-06-21 22:16 ` [PATCH 13/14] mac80211: reorder interface related functions Johannes Berg
2007-06-21 22:16 ` [PATCH 14/14] mac80211: introduce util.c Johannes Berg
2007-06-22 9:09 ` [PATCH 00/14] major mac80211 restructuring/cleanups Johannes Berg
2007-06-28 10:59 ` Johannes Berg
2007-07-10 13:34 ` Jiri Benc
2007-07-10 13:50 ` Johannes Berg
2007-07-10 14:29 ` Jiri Benc
2007-07-10 14:51 ` Johannes Berg
2007-07-10 17:12 ` John W. Linville
2007-07-10 18:35 ` Johannes Berg
2007-07-11 20:20 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2007-07-17 13:54 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2007-07-17 13:57 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2007-07-11 16:34 ` jketreno
2007-07-11 20:06 ` Joerg Mayer
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