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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



  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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