From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265146AbUGODNf (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jul 2004 23:13:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265222AbUGODNe (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jul 2004 23:13:34 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:42941 "EHLO ozlabs.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265146AbUGODNc (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jul 2004 23:13:32 -0400 Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 11:26:56 +1000 From: David Gibson To: Pavel Roskin Cc: Francois Romieu , Linux kernel mailing list , Jeff Garzik , jt@hpl.hp.com, Dan Williams Subject: Re: [PATCH] Slowly update in-kernel orinoco drivers to upstream current CVS Message-ID: <20040715012656.GD3697@zax> Mail-Followup-To: David Gibson , Pavel Roskin , Francois Romieu , Linux kernel mailing list , Jeff Garzik , jt@hpl.hp.com, Dan Williams References: <20040712213349.A2540@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040523i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. http://www.ozlabs.org/people/dgibson