From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Steps for netdev-2.6 inclusion? Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 01:18:32 -0500 Message-ID: <41AEB3B8.2000406@pobox.com> References: <41AE7143.80505@linux.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Netdev Return-path: To: James Ketrenos In-Reply-To: <41AE7143.80505@linux.intel.com> Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org It's fairly easy, just email me and netdev the patch for inclusion, and it'll get reviewed. Once review issues are addressed, I'll merge it immediately, which causes it to be automatically propagated to Andrew Morton's -mm tree for testing. Once consensus agrees that we can push this + HostAP upstream, that's an easy 10-minute task. One potential showstopper is firmware crapola: I'm concerned about a situation where we have drivers in the kernel, but the firmware must be downloaded from SourceForge or somesuch. IOW, the kernel driver as-is is useless without a differently-licensed firmware. Comments? Jeff