From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "John W. Linville" Subject: Re: Please pull 'rt2x00' branch of wireless-2.6 Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:11:56 -0400 Message-ID: <20070919191156.GC5483@tuxdriver.com> References: <20070918213202.GJ4940@tuxdriver.com> <200709192031.19934.IvDoorn@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: davem@davemloft.net, jeff@garzik.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org To: Ivo van Doorn Return-path: Received: from ra.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.52]:3974 "EHLO ra.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751414AbXISTlw (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:41:52 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200709192031.19934.IvDoorn@gmail.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 08:31:19PM +0200, Ivo van Doorn wrote: > > Ivo and his team may feel I am jumping the gun a bit -- they have > > a few more random bugs they wanted to squash before going upstream. > > But since they are bugs, any fixes should still be able to be applied > > in the -rc phase of 2.6.24. In the meantime, I definitely think it > > would be better to get this code into mainline rather than keeping > > it out of stream. > > With 2.6.23 not yet released, I assume we still have a few months to get > rt2x00 shaped up to be really ready for 2.6.24? > Because I am indeed not really happy with this early merge, but I'll do my > best to resolve the last outstanding bugs as soon as possible. Ivo, Having failed to ask for permission, this is where I ask for your forgiveness. Please forgive me! :-) As Dave said, merging rt2x00 now is undoubtedly better than having no driver at all. I appreciate your understanding and cooperation! Thanks, John -- John W. Linville linville@tuxdriver.com