Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757248AbXI1DQQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Sep 2007 23:16:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754651AbXI1DQD (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Sep 2007 23:16:03 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:59498 "EHLO gate.crashing.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754575AbXI1DQB (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Sep 2007 23:16:01 -0400 Subject: Re: iwl4965 and driver merging policy From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Reply-To: benh@kernel.crashing.org To: "John W. Linville" Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel list , tomas.winkler@intel.com In-Reply-To: <20070928023055.GI7991@tuxdriver.com> References: <1190943567.6158.50.camel@pasglop> <20070928023055.GI7991@tuxdriver.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:15:23 +1000 Message-Id: <1190949323.6158.66.camel@pasglop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1610 Lines: 36 On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 22:30 -0400, John W. Linville wrote: > > It doesn't seem to pull any depedency nor affect any other external > > piece of code unless I'm missing something, so it's a perfect > example of > > what we've been discussing back then: there is just no point not > merging > > it at any time right ? :-) > > It is queued for 2.6.24. I'm not even sure it was originally posted > in time for the 2.6.23 merge window, but even if it was there was > a lot of opposition to merging it until fairly recently. In fact, > I'm sure there are still some wireless developers that are less than > happy about merging it now. > > Anyway, coming soon to a kernel near you... Allright, thanks. I was mostly trying to figure out where we standed with this whole idea that driver additions were not necessarily constrainted by the merge window (which I think is fair to do) and this looked like a good example to pick since it affects my new laptop :-) Out of curiosity, what's the main source of opposition ? Since it's being shipped by distro or built out of tree by most users -anyway-, I think it's pretty clear that we'd be better off having it merged asap rather than trying to figure out what random version was included by users/distros and try to support it, in addition to wider exposure & all the yadada of being upstream in the first place. Ben. - 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/