Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263502AbUCPIAI (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Mar 2004 03:00:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263506AbUCPIAI (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Mar 2004 03:00:08 -0500 Received: from studorgs.rutgers.edu ([128.6.24.131]:43422 "EHLO ruslug.rutgers.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263502AbUCPIAB (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Mar 2004 03:00:01 -0500 Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 01:38:56 -0500 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" To: Jeff Garzik Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" , prism54-devel@prism54.org, netdev , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@redhat.com Subject: Re: Prism54 Driver Project Complete Message-ID: <20040316063856.GH24063@ruslug.rutgers.edu> Mail-Followup-To: Jeff Garzik , "Luis R. Rodriguez" , prism54-devel@prism54.org, netdev , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@redhat.com References: <20040316055249.GE24063@ruslug.rutgers.edu> <4056983B.9010609@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="0QFb0wBpEddLcDHQ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4056983B.9010609@pobox.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Operating-System: 2.4.18-1-686 Organization: Rutgers University Student Linux Users Group Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2696 Lines: 68 --0QFb0wBpEddLcDHQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 01:01:31AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > There still needs to be a central "maintainer" of prism54, someone who=20 > sends patches either directly to me, or via Jean to me (maintainer's=20 > choice). Ideally, it is best to funnel patches from everybody through=20 > driver-maintainer -> subsystem maintainer -> Marcelo|Andrew|Linus. That= =20 > only breaks down when the driver or subsystem maintainer is too slow,=20 > and doesn't follow the "release early, release often" precept :) >=20 > Open source is about lack of control, and trusting that community and=20 > consensus will produce superior software over the long run... but lack= =20 > of control doesn't mean lack of organization :) >=20 > Jeff Well in that case we'll also act as the "official" prism54 patch recipients/senders. And by "we" I mean any of the prism54 developers listed on our project page. We can do this but we can only do this if the patches are sent to *us* based on clean bk trees. It's important that patches are sent to *us* prior to inclusion in the kernel since this driver is not the normal 1-file driver. If a patch goes into the driver in the kernel tree but not ours it's going to be a pain mantaining our tree / writing patches for you (as was done just now), specially since we're still a heavily active driver project.=20 So for now then, I'm going to update our CVS repository to match the kernel tree and we'll soon send you patches with the latest changes. Please only accept then patches/changes for the driver if its passed throug= h us (if this is possible). It's not that that we don't want people to contribute it's just that this is the way it has to be in order to make our live's easiers as mantainers of the driver. I'm already subscribed to the netdev list and I'll keep my eyes open for any wide-kernel changes/patches and apply them too. I'll ask the others to do the same. Is this an OK plan? --=20 GnuPG Key fingerprint =3D 113F B290 C6D2 0251 4D84 A34A 6ADD 4937 E20A 525E --0QFb0wBpEddLcDHQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAVqEAat1JN+IKUl4RAqgWAKCw8GoeTtwije6vLh9JGMHu941oIACgiXfR HLMam8KXLB4l4sArfWuie9g= =uCD2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0QFb0wBpEddLcDHQ-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/