From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Buesch Subject: Re: pull request: wireless-2.6 2008-08-26 Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:10:34 +0200 Message-ID: <200808271510.35950.mb@bu3sch.de> References: <20080827013009.GA15781@tuxdriver.com> <1219831828.3891.3.camel@johannes.berg> <1ba2fa240808270434y1589761xd2ff0a48c2e99033@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Johannes Berg" , "Marcel Holtmann" , "David Miller" , linville-2XuSBdqkA4R54TAoqtyWWQ@public.gmane.org, linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: "Tomas Winkler" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1ba2fa240808270434y1589761xd2ff0a48c2e99033-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-wireless-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 27 August 2008, Tomas Winkler wrote: > > should use Linux upstream as your development tree and then branch off > > of that for the internal stabilisation trees you need for other > > customers, rather than having some sort of internal development tree and > > branching out Linux upstream as you appear to work. > > Unfortunately fixing bugs on stable branch take precedence of > adjusting to new API on development branch that someone decided to do. > I wanted to work directly on wireless testing but it was broken over > an over and I have only limited resources more in testing then in > development I just had to branch out to be ready with the driver when > HW is out. People just check the immediate impact of they fix the > don't test for collateral damage and this is understandable an > individual developer doesn't have lab with IBSS, BSS, AP, etc setups. I think it would be an advantage for you to develop in wireless-testing and use wireless-2.6 and probably additionally some internal trees as stable trees. Like everybody else does it. The advantage is simple: You get more people testing your code. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html