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Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:19:42 -0400
From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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John W. Linville wrote:
> I would definitely like to see more action from mac80211 driver
> developers towards getting drivers upstream.  With mac80211 merged,
> I know of no reason not to get the drivers ready for upstream now so
> they can funnel through netdev-2.6 into -mm with plenty of time to
> spare before the next merge window.

Agreed.  Getting something upstream is the fastest way to mature a 
driver...  It gets far less testing and review hiding out in 
netdev-2.6.git or wireless-dev.git.

If it works, is relatively clean, and doesn't corrupt data or have 
races, push it upstream :)

	Jeff