Re: pull request: wireless-2.6 2010-05-28

From: Sedat Dilek
Date: Wed Jun 02 2010 - 04:47:53 EST


On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 6:22 PM, reinette chatre
<reinette.chatre@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Sedat,
>
> On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 06:34 -0700, Sedat Dilek wrote:
>> Two people confirmed the patch in [2] fixes:
>> 1. iwlwifi-2.6 GIT master (commit f10a237c95abd6d64a3a24553bd1d3bcddd9108b)
>> 2. compat-wireless (2010-05-21)
>>
>> And it fixes also the above mentionned combination.
>
> We are working on getting this patch upstream. The version tested
> contains a significant amount of duplicated code as well as some cleanup
> code mixed in. It is thus not appropriate for an upstream submission at
> this time.
>

What do you mean by "upstream"?
upstream for me is Linus-tree (linux-2.6 GIT master).
Patches against iwlwifi-2.6 GIT trees are not very helpful in my case.

>> As a suggestion:
>> What about "copying" bug-reports (incl. its history) from IWL-BTS into
>> linux-wireless ML?
>> For example (dri-devel related) bug-reports from
>> bugzilla.freedesktop.org are "copied" into dri-devel ML.
>
> Pointing people to the bug report seems to work ok. What benefit does
> the above have?
>

[+] People - not subscribed to the BR - can follow "on change".
[-] Blow up linux-wireless ML?

- Sedat -
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