From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030581AbXCHJ7U (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Mar 2007 04:59:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030616AbXCHJ7U (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Mar 2007 04:59:20 -0500 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:45003 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030581AbXCHJ7T (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Mar 2007 04:59:19 -0500 Message-ID: <45EFDE75.5060905@garzik.org> Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 04:59:17 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: ext4, wireless (was Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1) References: <20070307201839.6f45735b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20070307201839.6f45735b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.8 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.3 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton wrote: > - The wireless changes in here need a lot of testers, please. It is major > rework. > > Of course the config files got all changed around so `make oldconfig' > breaks everything. I was able to get ipw2200 working after some fumbling, > but perhaps John can tell people what has been changed in there? What has > happened, from a big picture perspective? The big big pictures is that Linux is getting a new wireless stack, one that active developers seem to agree on. It /should/ support all the old wireless-tools binaries out there, except the wext/netlink stuff that people want to kill. > - Re-added the ext4 development tree to the -mm lineup. It has stuff in > it. IMO I've been a bit disappointed at the rate of development. I had hoped that patches to ext4 would be making it into mainline more rapidly. Jeff