Re: [PATCH 00/14] major mac80211 restructuring/cleanups

[jketreno <jketreno@linux.intel.com>]

Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 16:29 +0200, Jiri Benc wrote:
> 
>> But even if it can be applied upstream, it doesn't solve anything. Imagine
>> a patch which was merged into wireless-dev before this restructuring and
>> which is not upstream. Merging it upstream would mean taking the patch from
>> wireless-dev git and manually modifying it to fit a new structure. And we
>> have a bunch of such patches which should go to 2.6.24 (yes, I really
>> mean .24). Perhaps I'm lazy, but I'd like to avoid that. It's going to be a
>> lot of unpleasant work even without this...
> 
> Which all goes to say that pushing mac80211 for .22 was too fast.

Definitely not too fast.  

The fact that people are using mac80211 from Linus' kernel tip is *GREAT*.  
We have a lot of users now that can pull Linus' tree and use iwlwifi and 
they no longer have to figure out how to patch a kernel, or pull from 
wireless-dev.

The fact that people are working on making patches against mac80211  is 
exactly what mac80211 needs.  By pushing at least some bits out we now 
have a larger audience testing, contributing, and working on making 
mac80211 better.

James