Return-path: Received: from charlotte.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.58]:33342 "EHLO smtp.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752416AbZLJPPL (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:15:11 -0500 Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:03:18 -0500 From: "John W. Linville" To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: Kalle Valo , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net Subject: Re: Revised wireless tree management practices Message-ID: <20091210150318.GB2955@tuxdriver.com> References: <20091209211054.GB32058@tuxdriver.com> <87ljhb0x0h.fsf@purkki.valot.fi> <20091210134733.GC11112@tuxdriver.com> <87ein30vt4.fsf@purkki.valot.fi> <43e72e890912100631if1c17b2l597168813db4a19c@mail.gmail.com> <20091210143754.GA2955@tuxdriver.com> <43e72e890912100653p3890705u4f88dd19026a5877@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 In-Reply-To: <43e72e890912100653p3890705u4f88dd19026a5877@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 06:53:43AM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 6:37 AM, John W. Linville > wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 06:31:02AM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > >> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 6:04 AM, Kalle Valo wrote: > >> > "John W. Linville" writes: > >> > > >> >> I still see value in a tree that has a reasonably stable base and > >> >> contains both wireless fixes and wireless features. > >> > > >> > I agree, it makes things a lot easier. > >> > > >> >> So, I think wireless-testing remains as the focal point for wireless > >> >> LAN testing and development. I'll just be getting patches there in a > >> >> slightly different process. > >> > > >> > Sounds very good. So I'll continue using wireless-testing. Thanks. > >> > >> But we use wireless-next as base though if we want to send you pull > >> requests, ay? > > > > Yes, that is correct -- people that want to send patches (or simply > > test) should use wireless-testing. ?People that want to send pull > > requests need to have trees based on wireless-2.6 (for fixes) > > Typically we have relied on you to push fixes into wireless-2.6, does > this change a bit now in that we should try to keep better track of > stable fixes and send them to you instead if we're doing the pull > request method? Yes. If you want me to do git pulls then you need to separate fixes into a tree based on wireless-2.6. Also, you should be conscientious about adding "Cc: stable@kernel.org" to commit logs as appropriate. The whole point of the pulls is to keep me from having to touch the patches. John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready.