From: David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com, jgarzik@redhat.com, Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] wireless: Update in-kernel orinoco driver
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 12:05:36 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041027020536.GF7925@zax> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1098814320.3663.24.camel@dcbw.boston.redhat.com>
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 02:12:00PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> This series of 15 patches updates the in-kernel orinoco wireless drivers
> to the level of current upstream orinoco CVS (from sourceforge). This
> level is "0.15rc2HEAD" as found in orinoco.h.
>
> The basis for this patchset was:
>
> upstream orinoco CVS from Mon, Oct 25
> kernel sources from linux-2.6.9.tar.bz2 + patch-2.6.10-rc1.bz2
>
> This is a revival of an effort to get the drivers up-to-date from
> earlier this year in July.
This is a much better effort at splitting up the CVS differences than
the last one I saw, but there are still some problems. In particular,
you've aimed the patch series at the CVS HEAD branch, which isn't what
we want to do. We want to merge to mainline the "for_linus" branch ,
not HEAD. The HEAD branch has a bunch of compatibility code so that
the code can work standalone against a range of kernels - this should
not be merge. Also it has several things that are there because they
kind-of work, but are really too ugly to live and should not be merged
to mainline.
Some more specific comments coming, on the individual patches.
Oh, and CCing Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> the other orinoco
maintainer would be a good idea, too.
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Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-26 18:12 [PATCHES] wireless: Update in-kernel orinoco driver Dan Williams
2004-10-26 18:33 ` [PATCH 2.6.10-rc1 1/15] wireless/orinoco: Use msleep() instead of hardcoded schedule_timeout()s Dan Williams
2004-10-26 18:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-10-26 19:35 ` Dan Williams
2004-10-26 19:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-10-26 19:55 ` Dan Williams
2004-10-27 3:13 ` David Gibson
2004-10-27 13:11 ` Dan Williams
2004-10-28 1:42 ` David Gibson
2004-10-26 19:34 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-26 18:38 ` [PATCH 2.6.10-rc1 1/15] wireless/orinoco: use msleep() Dan Williams
2004-10-26 18:39 ` [PATCH 2.6.10-rc1 2/15] wireless/orinoco: fix up printk text Dan Williams
2004-10-26 18:43 ` [PATCH 2.6.10-rc1 3/15] wireless/orinoco: encapsulate direct hardware operations Dan Williams
2004-10-27 3:15 ` David Gibson
2004-10-26 18:45 ` [PATCH 2.6.10-rc1 4/15] wireless/orinoco: Update orinoco changelog and module parameters Dan Williams
2004-10-26 19:36 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-27 3:15 ` David Gibson
2004-10-26 18:47 ` [PATCH 2.6.10-rc1 5/15] wireless/orinoco: Update orinoco pcmcia driver's IRQ handling Dan Williams
2004-10-26 18:51 ` [PATCH 2.6.10-rc1 6/15] wireless/orinoco: New device data release function Dan Williams
2004-10-26 18:56 ` [PATCH 2.6.10-rc1 7/15] wireless/orinoco: Update card reset/init code and add card-specific data structures Dan Williams
2004-10-26 19:43 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-27 4:00 ` David Gibson
2004-10-26 19:04 ` R[PATCH 2.6.10-rc1 8/15] wireless/orinoco: Refactor spinlocks so we don't necessarily have to disable interrupts Dan Williams
2004-10-26 19:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-27 4:14 ` David Gibson
2004-10-26 19:07 ` [PATCH 2.6.10-rc1 9/15] wireless/orinoco: Remove dump_recs in preparation for a more flexible replacement Dan Williams
2004-10-26 19:13 ` [PATCH 2.6.10-rc1 10/15] wireless/orinoco: Use wireless handlers rather than ioctl()s Dan Williams
2004-10-26 19:18 ` [PATCH 2.6.10-rc1 11/15] wireless/orinoco: Clean up firmware version & capability detection Dan Williams
2004-10-26 19:20 ` [PATCH 2.6.10-rc1 12/15] wireless/orinoco: Use netif routines rather than keeping link state ourselves Dan Williams
2004-10-26 19:22 ` [PATCH 2.6.10-rc1 13/15] wireless/orinoco: RF monitor mode support Dan Williams
2004-10-26 19:24 ` [PATCH 2.6.10-rc1 14/15] wireless/orinoco: add minimal ethtool support Dan Williams
2004-10-26 19:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-27 4:01 ` David Gibson
2004-10-26 19:28 ` [PATCH 2.6.10-rc1 15/15] wireless/orinoco: Wireless scanning support Dan Williams
2004-10-26 19:33 ` Francois Romieu
2004-10-27 4:06 ` David Gibson
2004-10-27 2:05 ` David Gibson [this message]
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