Re: [PATCH] Slowly update in-kernel orinoco drivers to upstream current CVS

David Gibson
2004-07-15T03:13:35Z

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 :)