Return-path: Received: from mail-lf0-f52.google.com ([209.85.215.52]:33219 "EHLO mail-lf0-f52.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751063AbbLQRlc (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Dec 2015 12:41:32 -0500 Received: by mail-lf0-f52.google.com with SMTP id p203so57464399lfa.0 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2015 09:41:31 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20151217155633.GC6910@tuxdriver.com> References: <20151216173223.GF4073@localhost> <20151217155633.GC6910@tuxdriver.com> Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 19:41:30 +0200 Message-ID: (sfid-20151217_184136_347894_39152BA4) Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] New location for wireless-testing tree From: Emmanuel Grumbach To: "John W. Linville" Cc: Bob Copeland , linux-wireless , =?UTF-8?Q?Bj=C3=B8rn_Mork?= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 5:56 PM, John W. Linville wrote: > On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 12:32:23PM -0500, Bob Copeland wrote: >> As reported previously[1], John Linville will be moving on from maintenance >> of the wireless-testing[2] tree at the end of the year. A huge thank you to >> John for doing all this work for so many years! >> >> We now have a shared wireless directory on kernel.org where we (currently >> myself and Kalle as backup) will continue to maintain this tree going >> forward. The new tree can be found at: >> >> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-testing.git >> >> Note: unlike John's tree, we are going to try rebasing this tree on every >> build (like linux-next) instead of merging the downstream trees, in order >> to avoid certain merge problems when those trees are rebased. >> >> This means that if you are working directly off of wireless-testing, use >> 'git pull --rebase' to sync, instead of just 'git pull'. >> >> We'll see how this goes and reassess after a couple of cycles. >> >> Please let me know of any issues. >> >> [1] http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/145291 >> >> [2] wireless-testing is an integration testing tree, consisting of: >> >> * Linus's latest -rc >> * patches in mac80211 and wireless-drivers (for the upcoming release) >> * patches in mac80211-next and wireless-drivers-next (for the next release) >> >> It is not pulled into any upstream tree, but it should be a pretty good >> indication of what is baking in Linux wireless for the next release, without >> having unrelated changes from all the other subsystems as in linux-next. > > Given this most welcome announcement, I will hereby cease maintenance > of the predecessor wireless-testing tree in favor of this new > canonical source. > Somewhat related. I started a while ago to mirror our internal development tree to korg. You'll find there the bleeding edge of iwlwifi's development: both fixes and new features. It is a backport based tree. Pretty much all the patches for mac80211{-next}.git that we (Intel) send come from there as well. Note that this is the "raw data" (including Change-IDs and server that are inside Intel's intranet) which I later edit to send patches upstream. I merge mac80211.git and mac80211-next.git to that tree to get mac80211 patches that come from upstream. In a sense, this tree looks like a backport of wireless-testing with content that is not there yet. You'll also find there "stable branches" that go through more thorough test cycles against their matching firmware version. I am not sure anyone is interested, but if someone wants, the tree is here: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/iwlwifi/backport-iwlwifi.git/ A bit more info on the "stable branches": https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/iwlwifi/core_release Drop me an email if you start to use this tree just to know if people are really using it :)