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From: David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Cc: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>,
	Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	jt@hpl.hp.com, Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Slowly update in-kernel orinoco drivers to upstream current CVS
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 11:26:56 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040715012656.GD3697@zax> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0407141605460.1799@marabou.research.att.com>

On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 04:15:59PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, Francois Romieu wrote:
> 
> >A serie of patches is available for at:
> >http://www.fr.zoreil.com/linux/kernel/2.6.x/2.6.7-mm7
> >
> >It contains 12 patches and applies against 2.6.7-mm7. The patches are
> >commented. The comments are partly taken from the cvs log by Pavel Roskin.
> 
> I hope the patches lead to the CVS version on the "for_linus" branch which 
> has no compatibility code.  I'm quite comfortable with the "for_linus" and 
> "Standalone" branches.
> 
> As for the HEAD branch, it has unfinished (skeleton only) prism_usb driver 
> meant for Intersil Prism USB devices (such as DWL-122).  It also has 
> working orinoco_usb driver.  Unfortunately, I don't feel good about that 
> code.  The way how this code is integrated with the common code is 
> questionable.  A lot of work would be needed to handle USB better. 
> That's not something that could be done before the next release.

I concur.

> I'm very busy now and I don't have time to finish the little bits I 
> planned for the 0.15 release.  However, the CVS version on the "for_linus" 
> branch is releasable and has no known regressions compared to any previous 
> version.  Feel free to apply the patches to the kernel now.  I expect to 
> have more time for free software in the end of August.

Good to hear.

> If David is OK, we could release the current code as version 0.15.  I'm OK 
> with it.  I have to adapt my ambitions to my time constraints.  

I'm reasonably comfortable with that.  I now have a handful of things
to commit before 0.15 which I've picked up while doing the merge with
mainline, but it's just whitespace and other trivialities.

> I'll 
> appreciate if my name is added to the MAINTAINERS file once the new driver 
> is committed.

Absolutely.  Haven't put that patch together yet, but it's coming :)

-- 
David Gibson			| For every complex problem there is a
david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au	| solution which is simple, neat and
				| wrong.
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      reply	other threads:[~2004-07-15  3:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-12 19:33 [PATCH] Slowly update in-kernel orinoco drivers to upstream current CVS Francois Romieu
2004-07-14 18:37 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-07-15  1:01   ` David Gibson
2004-07-17 11:45     ` Francois Romieu
2004-07-27 17:18     ` Jeff Garzik
2004-07-28  6:51       ` [0/15] orinoco merge preliminaries David Gibson
2004-07-28  6:53         ` [1/15] orinoco merge preliminaries - squash backwards compatibility David Gibson
2004-07-28  6:53           ` [2/15] orinoco merge preliminaries - rearrange code David Gibson
2004-07-28  6:54             ` [3/15] orinoco merge preliminaries - use netdev_priv() David Gibson
2004-07-28  6:54               ` [4/15] orinoco merge preliminaries - use ALIGN() David Gibson
2004-07-28  6:55                 ` [5/15] orinoco merge preliminaries - use ARRAY_SIZE() David Gibson
2004-07-28  6:55                   ` [6/15] orinoco merge preliminaries - spam stoppers David Gibson
2004-07-28  6:56                     ` [7/15] orinoco merge preliminaries - comment/whitespace/spelling updates David Gibson
2004-07-28  6:57                       ` [8/15] orinoco merge preliminaries - use BUG_ON() David Gibson
2004-07-28  6:58                         ` [9/15] orinoco merge preliminaries - make things static David Gibson
2004-07-28  6:58                           ` [10/15] orinoco merge preliminaries - miscelaneous David Gibson
2004-07-28  6:59                             ` [11/15] orinoco merge preliminaries - use name/version macros David Gibson
2004-07-28  6:59                               ` [12/15] orinoco merge preliminaries - remove unneeded #includes David Gibson
2004-07-28  7:00                                 ` [13/15] orinoco merge preliminaries - don't typedef structs David Gibson
2004-07-28  7:00                                   ` [14/15] orinoco merge preliminaries - more HW data David Gibson
2004-07-28  7:01                                     ` [15/15] orinoco merge preliminaries - update authorship information David Gibson
2004-07-28 16:55                                       ` Jeff Garzik
2004-07-28 17:36                     ` [6/15] orinoco merge preliminaries - spam stoppers Matt Mackall
2004-07-28 22:50         ` [0/15] orinoco merge preliminaries Francois Romieu
2004-07-29  0:19           ` David Gibson
2004-07-29 23:19             ` Francois Romieu
2004-09-08 15:18               ` Dan Williams
2004-09-09  3:13                 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-09 19:51                   ` Francois Romieu
2004-07-14 20:15 ` [PATCH] Slowly update in-kernel orinoco drivers to upstream current CVS Pavel Roskin
2004-07-15  1:26   ` David Gibson [this message]

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