On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 11:29:55AM +0200, Vladimir Kondratiev wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have the following situation:
>
> - there is the driver for 60g WiFi card, "wil6210", that I want to merge. It
> consists of 2 patches:
>
> wireless: Driver for 60GHz card wil6210
> wireless: integrate wil6210 driver into build
>
> - then, there is one more patch for Atheros drivers family config that I rely
> on:
>
> wireless: allow Atheros card to not depend on ath.ko
>
> - and, there is one more patch that I depend on:
>
> dynamic_debug: dynamic hex dump
>
> Discussion about last patch was taken from linux-wireless to the LKML, and it
> get pushed to Greg K-H by Jason Baron.
>
> So, question is: what is the right strategy for wil6210 driver?
>
> Shall I wait till 2 patches I depend on get merged? Some other idea?
>
> Please advise.
>
> Thanks, Vladimir
Since Greg is merging one patch and I'm merging the other, under
normal circumstances they will only reach the same tree sometime
during the 3.8 merge window. FWIW, I was under the impression that
you were targeting 3.9 anyway. If so, you can simply wait to have
your driver merged sometime after 3.8-rc1.
Does that help?
John
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On Friday, November 30, 2012 09:38:00 PM John W. Linville wrote:
> Since Greg is merging one patch and I'm merging the other, under
> normal circumstances they will only reach the same tree sometime
> during the 3.8 merge window. FWIW, I was under the impression that
> you were targeting 3.9 anyway. If so, you can simply wait to have
> your driver merged sometime after 3.8-rc1.
>
> Does that help?
>
> John
>
Thanks John,
Actually, I was after 3.8; but I understand in my situation it may be
not feasible.
Positive side is till 3.9 I can integrate more features;
negative one is... the same - since I will end up with one bulky patch.
I'd actually prefer to have baseline merged, and then submit 'feature'
patches - it will be easier to review.
By the way - what is better, hold new features till initial driver merged,
or keep integrating more and more stuff?
Thanks, Vladimir