Return-path: Received: from crystal.sipsolutions.net ([195.210.38.204]:52512 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752219AbXB1Qhs (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:37:48 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/28] rt2x00: Add debugfs support From: Johannes Berg To: Ivo van Doorn Cc: "John W. Linville" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200702281732.08221.IvDoorn@gmail.com> References: <200702281507.13953.IvDoorn@gmail.com> <1172679612.5015.35.camel@johannes.berg> <200702281732.08221.IvDoorn@gmail.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-lRbwVT7EvvrH9r73t1YQ" Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:37:19 +0100 Message-Id: <1172680639.5015.39.camel@johannes.berg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-lRbwVT7EvvrH9r73t1YQ Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 17:32 +0100, Ivo van Doorn wrote: > Well at the moment the cfg80211/nl80211 updates have had a great impact > on our CVS tree. So it is starting to look like we are going to drop our = CVS > version if we don't find a backwards compatibility for vanilla kernels fo= r it. Well, we had to start looking forward somewhere. I wish we'd gotten our cfg80211 wext-compat hooks into mainline but unfortunately that isn't so. > Working the other way around will have a negative (But as mentioned above > a probably unescapable) side effect. 90% of our testers use the CVS again= st > vanilla kernels, and I cannot see them swicthing to the wireless-dev tree= .. > So I could switch (it is already under consideration) but it will cost us= a lot > of testers.. :( Intel is providing snapshots for this stuff and I think James is still trying to figure out if there's any chance to provide cfg80211 w/o patches to mainline, which may just work until critical functionality mac80211 is moved over to cfg80211 instead of wext. johannes --=-lRbwVT7EvvrH9r73t1YQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iD8DBQBF5a+//ETPhpq3jKURAnn2AJ9dGg9MmNFAIQ22LfJW5snzECl7cQCbB1qa Hvu+BCO/nftP4tbt76k4b0k= =77iL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-lRbwVT7EvvrH9r73t1YQ--