Return-path: Received: from charlotte.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.58]:53335 "EHLO smtp.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932132Ab1IMTP1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:15:27 -0400 Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:10:54 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: Larry Finger Cc: =?utf-8?B?UmFmYcWCIE1pxYJlY2tp?= , Francis Moreau , Arend van Spriel , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@suse.de Subject: Re: About the patch: "staging: brcm80211: only enable brcmsmac if bcma is not set" Message-ID: <20110913191054.GI11772@tuxdriver.com> (sfid-20110913_211530_064380_E29678D6) References: <20110913174444.GG11772@tuxdriver.com> <4E6FA480.5030500@lwfinger.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <4E6FA480.5030500@lwfinger.net> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 01:44:16PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > On 09/13/2011 12:44 PM, John W. Linville wrote: > > > >We are going to have to find a way to get brcmsmac into the > >wireless-next tree to make it feasible for the Broadcom guys to get > >bcma support into that driver. Do you agree? > > > >We could move it under the drivers/net/wireless tree. Or, maybe I > >could negotiate with Greg to keep it under the drivers/staging tree > >but to let me manage it under wireless-next. Or...? Do you have > >any thoughts on this? > > Based on the earlier comments, I still see lots of problems in > getting brcmsmac into the drivers/net/wireless tree; however, the > solution where Greg lets you manage that part of drivers/staging > does not seem to cause too many problems, as long as he is kept in > the loop. If you could push those changes through Greg rather than > DaveM, I don't think he would lose any control. I don't think there is any reasonable way to push one tree through two different upstream paths, unless both upstreams want all the tree has to offer. I don't see a way to both segregate brcmsmac commits from the rest of the tree and yet have the bcma commits available to brcmsmac. John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready.