Return-path: Received: from mail-wm0-f53.google.com ([74.125.82.53]:37166 "EHLO mail-wm0-f53.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756094AbbKRXop convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Nov 2015 18:44:45 -0500 Received: by wmww144 with SMTP id w144so94263975wmw.0 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 2015 15:44:43 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <87oaesyb1s.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> References: <20151116195551.GD8895@tuxdriver.com> <87oaesyb1s.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 23:44:43 +0000 Message-ID: (sfid-20151119_004448_317165_D4B42556) Subject: Re: linux-wireless rebased (probably for the last time) on 4.4-rc1 From: Bruno Antunes To: Kalle Valo Cc: "John W. Linville" , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , Johannes Berg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 17 November 2015 at 14:07, Kalle Valo wrote: > > "John W. Linville" writes: > > > The wireless-testing tree has been rebased on top of 4.4-rc1. The > > current head of the tree is eced3b090878ddba643bbed599e6edea4ad90f49. > > Please update any downstream trees accordingly! > > > > It has been almost a year since I turned-over wireless maintenance > > duties to Johannes and Kalle. At that time I agreed to continue > > maintaining the wireless-testing tree for the duration of 2015 to help > > those that were still relying on it. The end of 2015 is coming soon, > > and with it I intend to stop maintaining wireless-testing. > > > > If you are still relying on wireless-testing, then I implore you to > > find another option to satisfy your needs. If someone would like to > > continue maintaining wireless-testing yourself, then please contact > > me and I will attempt to assist you in such a transition. > > > > Thanks for all the fish! > > Thank you John. I have been using wireless-testing in my main laptop for > god knows how many years and I hate to see it go. I consider it as the > safest way to test the latest wireless code as it's just the latest -rc > release from Linux plus mac80211 and wireless-drivers trees. linux-next > is just too experimental for me, I don't want that anywhere near my > laptop :) It would be interesting to know what others think about > wireless-testing and how much users that tree really has? Apparently not many... I’ve been using it for over a year and I agree that Its a very convenient way for getting the latest code. > > I hope we can find some solution and wireless-testing continues to > exist. Otherwise testing latest wireless code will become more > difficult. Is this tree very difficult to maintain? In case there are no volunteers what will be future options for using the latest wireless code? I think I still don't understand the all developer process. The wireless wiki [1] says the diagram is out of date, thats obvious, since wireless tree is now wireless-drivers and the maintainer is Kalle. wireless-drivers ----> net -----> linux So what is the process for wireless-testing tree, the merge of linux, mac80211and wireless-drivers trees? Regards, Bruno [1] https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/process > > -- > Kalle Valo > -- > 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