Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750721AbVKIPs3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Nov 2005 10:48:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750780AbVKIPs2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Nov 2005 10:48:28 -0500 Received: from mxfep01.bredband.com ([195.54.107.70]:34194 "EHLO mxfep01.bredband.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750721AbVKIPs2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Nov 2005 10:48:28 -0500 Subject: Re: New Linux Development Model From: Ian Kumlien Reply-To: pomac@vapor.com To: "Wed, 9 Nov 2005 13:03:07 +0100" Cc: marado@isp.novis.pt, Linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, fawadlateef@gmail.com, s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk, hostmaster@ed-soft.at, jerome.lacoste@gmail.com, carlsj@yahoo.com In-Reply-To: <20051109130307.bd1b2cce.grundig@teleline.es> References: <1131500868.2413.63.camel@localhost> <1131534496.8930.15.camel@noori.ip.pt> <1131535832.2413.75.camel@localhost> <20051109130307.bd1b2cce.grundig@teleline.es> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-5VfcSKuV94irBd7cCNdk" Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 16:49:17 +0100 Message-Id: <1131551357.2413.80.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2103 Lines: 55 --=-5VfcSKuV94irBd7cCNdk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 13:03 +0100, Wed, 9 Nov 2005 13:03:07 +0100 wrote: > El Wed, 09 Nov 2005 12:30:32 +0100, > Ian Kumlien escribi=F3: >=20 > > The 'stable' version that got merged is more or less useless to people > > who are smart about their wlans. And on a side note, even the firmware > > has improved since then. >=20 > People who is smart about their wlans is smart enought to update their > kernels to use the new and possibily more unstable version. What's the > problem? People maintaining the main tree may have a different (and > valid) view on this issue.=20 Since it out of tree, it's not a issue of 'updating' a kernel, it's more of a issue of making it compile with a kernel. (which if you read the original post was one of the problems mentioned.) And, yes, they might have a valid view, but the kernel also has "experimental" features, why not merge a driver that can be used, mark it as experimental until it's merged with a stable rel. The issue of getting the first rel in to the kernel is that all of the sudden more developers starts hacking away on it and the original developers have to keep it all in sync (as i mentioned before). > People is allowed to have different opinions than you, deal with it. And that applies to me to, now deal with it. --=20 Ian Kumlien -- http://pomac.netswarm.net --=-5VfcSKuV94irBd7cCNdk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1-ecc0.1.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDchp97F3Euyc51N8RAviZAJkB2tSH5bylo3tmwAvOD1s78wTi6QCgiEWm bWZIZ0msEuaeMCXll/7ZqPY= =fpJ6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-5VfcSKuV94irBd7cCNdk-- - 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/