From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ivo van Doorn Subject: Re: Please pull 'rt2x00' branch of wireless-2.6 Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:59:10 +0200 Message-ID: <200709192259.10694.IvDoorn@gmail.com> References: <20070918213202.GJ4940@tuxdriver.com> <200709192031.19934.IvDoorn@gmail.com> <20070919191156.GC5483@tuxdriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: davem@davemloft.net, jeff@garzik.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org To: "John W. Linville" Return-path: Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.179]:56195 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757038AbXISUq0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:46:26 -0400 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id u77so594065pyb for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 13:46:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20070919191156.GC5483@tuxdriver.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 19 September 2007, John W. Linville wrote: > 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! :-) Not a problem. :) > As Dave said, merging rt2x00 now is undoubtedly better than having > no driver at all. I appreciate your understanding and cooperation! I was just surprised to see the pull request floating by, but you were right, there should be enough time to resolve the remaining issues and it is actually a good thing to start moving rt2x00 further upstream. Ivo