Return-path: Received: from ra.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.52]:4174 "EHLO ra.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965536AbXEGQDA (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 May 2007 12:03:00 -0400 Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 11:38:48 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Dan Williams , Christoph Hellwig , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, marcelo@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Please pull 'revert-libertas' branch of wireless-2.6 (was Re: Please pull 'libertas' branch of wireless-2.6) Message-ID: <20070507153848.GD5125@tuxdriver.com> References: <20070227205649.GH5826@tuxdriver.com> <45E8CF5E.5090305@garzik.org> <20070303052140.GA31075@infradead.org> <20070507104117.GA31601@infradead.org> <1178539423.3032.24.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070507141143.GB5125@tuxdriver.com> <463F443A.5000306@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <463F443A.5000306@garzik.org> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 11:22:34AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Open source is about release early, release often. Not "hide code in a > dark corner until Christoph thinks it is perfect." We have high > standards for upstream merged code, but that standard is not perfection. > Perfect is the enemy of good. > > I would rather see the libertas-2.6 git changes pulled into upstream, > and am not inclined to revert a WORKING DRIVER at this point, a driver > that is actively maintained and has seen quite a bit of improvement > since it initially appeared. Perhaps I was a bit hasty. Given Dan's response I thought that I had missed something. But, you are right -- the driver works now, and Dan and company are sure to be around to keep working on it. > Plus, that leaves the kernel history less polluted. Consider the request withdrawn. Thanks, John -- John W. Linville linville@tuxdriver.com