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

David Gibson
2004-07-04T02:17:55Z

On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 01:07:09AM +0200, Francois Romieu wrote:
> Jean Tourrilhes <jt@bougret.hpl.hp.com> :
> [...]
> > The difference between 0.13e and 0.15rc1+ is not small. I
> > believe Pavel did a good job in splitting the various patches in small
> > pieces when adding them to the CVS, and David has tracked the kernel,
> > but reconciliating the two branches is no trivial matter.
>
> I have extracted a few things from the bz2 ball that Dan sent (against
> 2.6.7-mm5 which already contains some orinoco bits):
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 romieu users 4564 jui 3 00:47 orinoco-10.patch
> -rw-r--r-- 1 romieu users 15999 jui 3 00:47 orinoco-20.patch
> -rw-r--r-- 1 romieu users 33135 jui 3 00:47 orinoco-30.patch
> -rw-r--r-- 1 romieu users 11463 jui 3 00:47 orinoco-40.patch
>
> Available at http://www.fr.zoreil.com/linux/kernel/2.6.x/2.6.7-mm5/
>
> So far the patches lack comments but they are quite simple.

Aha, that's a good start. During the week I'll try to look at these,
put my rubber stamp on them, and send them on to Jeff.

One thing I notice though (from your later ones, actually) is that you
seem to be moving from current 2.6 to the CVS HEAD branch. That
includes the orinoco_usb stuff, which I still don't think is done
right and would rather not push. I know this is asking a bir of a
favour, given how useless I've been at doing the update myself, but
your patches would be much more useful if they aimed at the CVS
"for_linus" branch.

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