Jouni Malinen wrote:
I tried quilt mail command for the first time and did not yet figure out
how to do this. Replace-Subject line in the patch description seems to
be doing exactly what is needed here, so I'll use that in the future.
That seems to be leaving an extra line (that Replace-Subject:..) in the
patch description. Is that something that should be removed from the
description or is it okay to just leave it in as an extra line in the
beginning of the description?
As long as the subject line is descriptive, I don't really care whether
its duplicated in the first line of the patch description (email body).
It would be nice to eliminate duplication, but no biggie.
If I have a patch that modifies both Host AP (i.e., 'ieee80211-wifi'
branch) and generic IEEE 802.11 code ('ieee80211'), is it okay to send a
patch against 'ieee80211-wifi' branch or is something else needed to
make it easy for you to merge such changes into netdev-2.6?
Best to send it against 'ieee80211' branch, and then I will merge into
ieee80211-wifi (whose parent is ieee80211).
I'm consider two options for merging Host AP with the generic IEEE
802.11 code. Previously, the main idea has been to just change Host AP
Fantastic! Quite frankly, based on past discussions, I thought you just
weren't going to bother with the generic IEEE code. See my comments --
to which I am HAPPY to be proven wrong -- in this recent message,
http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/7/30/207
driver to use generic code. In the current form, this would likely be a
rather large change and would probably require breaking some parts of
the functionality or require a large set of patches to be applied at
once.
Another alternative would be to just start from scratch (well, based on
the existing Prism2/2.5/3 code in Host AP driver of course) with a new
driver and first get client mode working since that is already included
in the IEEE 802.11 code that ipw2x00 drivers are using. Once this is
done, AP (Master) mode support could be added. This would allow the
current Host AP driver to remain in fully functional form and would make
it easier to do the changes in smaller pieces.
My strong preference is: whatever the person actually doing the work
prefers ;-)
As long as we have -one- HostAP driver, and it uses the generic
ieee80211 code, I'm happy.
Jeff
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