Return-path: Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.176]:15655 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751946AbXGQN5c (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:57:32 -0400 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id d32so2907546pye for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 06:57:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <43e72e890707170657w367ac696nb4a4b1d437162091@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:57:30 -0400 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" To: "Christoph Hellwig" Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/14] major mac80211 restructuring/cleanups Cc: "Johannes Berg" , "John W. Linville" , "Jiri Benc" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <43e72e890707170654h7ecb9ffhb609db23e9c98faa@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed References: <20070621221603.778432000@sipsolutions.net> <20070710153456.471e395e@logostar.upir.cz> <1184075439.15565.11.camel@johannes.berg> <20070710162912.17899683@logostar.upir.cz> <1184079079.15565.13.camel@johannes.berg> <20070710171216.GE7927@tuxdriver.com> <1184092500.3738.15.camel@johannes.berg> <20070711202035.GA15457@infradead.org> <43e72e890707170654h7ecb9ffhb609db23e9c98faa@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 7/17/07, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On 7/11/07, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 08:35:00PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > > > I don't really see the big problem anyhow. As long as we don't want any > > > patches in upstream that depend on the refactoring we can delay pushing > > > the refactoring upstream. Once we do get patches we can decide to either > > > make two versions of them or at some point push the refactoring upstream > > > as well; problems will only arise if we delay too much pushing patches > > > upstream that are before the refactoring, those would need to be > > > rediffed. > > > > The normal Linux aproach is to push the refactoring as soon as possible. > > That way the other changes have to be rebased once and than you're done > > with it. If you keep the big refactoring in some staging tree porting > > things forth and back will be an endless pain. > > This is true but the idea is to try to merge wireless-dev into > wireless-2.6 ASAP. We shouldn't stop wireless-dev tree changes as that > is what we need to help with development. I can only see this helping > us down the road. Jiri -- are you sure? :) Nevermind... Johannes' patches won't apply anymore, except for the ones he pinged about for recently... Luis