Return-path: Received: from qw-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.92.25]:3371 "EHLO qw-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752897AbYKJSyq (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:54:46 -0500 Received: by qw-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 3so1515745qwe.37 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:54:45 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <69e28c910811101054h55a20799o9ed3476f844077b0@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20081110_195451_318322_906D46F0) Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:54:45 +0100 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Stefanik_G=E1bor?=" To: "David Shwatrz" Subject: Re: Where is allow-ap-vlan-modes.patch ? Cc: "John W. Linville" , "Kalle Valo" , "Ivo van Doorn" , johannes@sipsolutions.net, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <31436f4a0811100742p6154e2f9p34f3dfb1de2f71e3@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 References: <31436f4a0811090701r4676409er8f53a32c91bc3ced@mail.gmail.com> <200811091604.43705.IvDoorn@gmail.com> <31436f4a0811100048h5c7520d3ga4eedd815f8c793a@mail.gmail.com> <874p2g0x9d.fsf@nokia.com> <20081110142806.GG3546@tuxdriver.com> <31436f4a0811100742p6154e2f9p34f3dfb1de2f71e3@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 4:42 PM, David Shwatrz wrote: > Hello, > First, I hope you feel better soon. > > Second: > Looking at the patches at the mailing list, I do not see > that anywhere it says against which git tree they were made. > It could be : wireless-next-2.6,wireless-2.6, and wireless-testing. > > I guess that there are many cases in which a patch can be applied to > two of these trees (or maybe all three of them), > whereas there are times in which it can be applied to only one git tree. > > How is it determined to which tree the patches should be > applied ? > > Rgs, > DS > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 4:28 PM, John W. Linville > wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:02:22AM +0200, Kalle Valo wrote: >>> David Shwatrz writes: >>> >>> > In this occasion may I ask - what is the wireless-testing git tree? >>> > is it based on wireless-next-2.6 or on wireless-2.6 tree? >>> >>> It's based on Linus' rc releases and has all the wireless patches >>> which have been under development. I think John cherry picks the >>> patches from wireless-testing to wireless-2.6 or wireless-next-2.6. So >>> wireless-testing contains the bleeding edge wireless patches and if >>> John thinks they are good enough, he submits them forward. >>> >>> Please correct me if I have understood something wrong. >> >> That is basically right. >> >> In the past patches often went to wireless-testing and to >> wireless-next-2.6/wireless-2.6 at the about the same time. However >> upstream standards have tightened in ways that make me feel it is >> appropriate to give patches more public testing even before sending >> them for -next. >> >> In this case, I was also sick all last week which has slowed thing >> a bit more... >> >> Thanks, >> >> John >> -- >> John W. Linville Linux should be at the core >> linville@tuxdriver.com of your literate lifestyle. >> > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > The target tree used to be wireless-2.6's "everything" branch. There was a lot of confusion over people mistakenly pulling "master" instead of "everything" ("master" is the default), so the "everything" branch was replaced by a separate repo, wireless-testing. -- Vista: [V]iruses, [I]ntruders, [S]pyware, [T]rojans and [A]dware. :-)