From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: James Ketrenos <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>, Simon Barber <simon@devicescape.com>,
Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>,
David Kimdon <dwhedon@devicescape.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] d80211: use pfifo_qdisc_ops rather than d80211-specific qdisc
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 19:30:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45493C09.9050707@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4548E7F7.7030100@linux.intel.com>
James Ketrenos wrote:
> If people have issues with with specific components of d80211 prior to
> its merging, stand up and state what they are and how not fixing them
> would negatively impact people that aren't using the d80211 subsystem.
>
> Don't take the above as me saying there aren't items that need to be
> fixed/improved in d80211 -- there is work to be done. But that
> shouldn't stop it from being merged w/ the EXPERIMENTAL flag set.
> We reached the point where we should be in -mm a long time ago as soon
> as both stacks could exist concurrently. d80211 should have been in
> Linus' tree a long time ago.
d80211 merge stoppers:
- SMP issues (lack of locking, and overlocking via use of Big Network Lock)
- userspace ABI
It definitely shouldn't go upstream without that stuff.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-02 0:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-25 22:04 [patch] d80211: use pfifo_qdisc_ops rather than d80211-specific qdisc David Kimdon
2006-10-25 23:29 ` Patrick McHardy
2006-10-26 1:21 ` Patrick McHardy
2006-10-26 2:38 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-26 3:37 ` Simon Barber
2006-10-26 5:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-26 5:15 ` Simon Barber
2006-11-01 10:28 ` Jiri Benc
2006-11-01 14:20 ` John W. Linville
2006-11-01 18:31 ` James Ketrenos
2006-11-02 0:30 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2006-11-02 1:48 ` d80211 merge (was Re: [patch] d80211: use pfifo_qdisc_ops rather than d80211-specific qdisc) James Ketrenos
2006-11-02 2:55 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-11-02 8:49 ` cfg80211/nl80211/WE (was: Re: d80211 merge) Johannes Berg
2006-11-02 8:59 ` cfg80211/nl80211/WE Jeff Garzik
2006-11-02 10:56 ` cfg80211/nl80211/WE (was: Re: d80211 merge) Christoph Hellwig
2006-11-02 12:03 ` Johannes Berg
2006-11-02 12:16 ` [patch] d80211: use pfifo_qdisc_ops rather than d80211-specific qdisc Christoph Hellwig
2006-11-02 14:05 ` Jiri Benc
2006-11-02 14:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-11-02 14:32 ` Johannes Berg
2006-11-02 14:41 ` Jochen Friedrich
2006-11-02 14:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-11-02 15:02 ` Johannes Berg
2006-11-02 16:38 ` Simon Barber
2006-11-02 15:42 ` Jiri Benc
2006-11-02 16:09 ` Sven-Haegar Koch
2006-11-02 18:38 ` Jiri Benc
2006-11-02 20:58 ` Dan Williams
2006-11-02 21:27 ` Simon Barber
2006-11-02 22:48 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-11-02 23:15 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2006-11-02 14:22 ` Johannes Berg
2006-11-02 16:33 ` [patch] d80211: use pfifo_qdisc_ops rather thand80211-specific qdisc Simon Barber
2006-11-02 16:43 ` Johannes Berg
2006-11-02 22:34 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-11-02 22:56 ` Johannes Berg
2006-11-03 19:23 ` [patch] d80211: use pfifo_qdisc_ops rather thand80211-specificqdisc Simon Barber
2006-11-03 19:29 ` Simon Barber
2006-11-03 19:39 ` John W. Linville
2006-11-03 23:07 ` Johannes Berg
2006-11-04 2:20 ` [patch] d80211: use pfifo_qdisc_ops ratherthand80211-specificqdisc Simon Barber
2006-11-02 14:06 ` [patch] d80211: use pfifo_qdisc_ops rather than d80211-specific qdisc John W. Linville
2006-10-26 1:34 ` Simon Barber
2006-10-26 1:49 ` Patrick McHardy
2006-10-26 3:17 ` Simon Barber
2006-10-26 2:04 ` Patrick McHardy
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