Re: iwl4965 and driver merging policy

2007-10-01 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Theodore Tso wrote: > Well, pulling in iwlwifi would require also pulling in the mac80211 > subsystem, so it's not quite that simple (although I'm not sure what's > holding back that going into the kernel.) Hi Ted, sorry? mac80211 is already in the tree, isn't it? Thanks,

Re: iwl4965 and driver merging policy

2007-09-28 Thread John W. Linville
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 01:15:23PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 22:30 -0400, John W. Linville wrote: > > I'm sure there are still some wireless developers that are less than > > happy about merging it now. > Out of curiosity, what's the main source of opposition ?

Re: iwl4965 and driver merging policy

2007-09-27 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 22:30 -0400, John W. Linville wrote: > > It doesn't seem to pull any depedency nor affect any other external > > piece of code unless I'm missing something, so it's a perfect > example of > > what we've been discussing back then: there is just no point not > merging > > it at

Re: iwl4965 and driver merging policy

2007-09-27 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> > Well, pulling in iwlwifi would require also pulling in the mac80211 > subsystem, so it's not quite that simple (although I'm not sure what's > holding back that going into the kernel.) I though that was already in 2.6.23 ... my bad if I missed something (there is definitely something there c

Re: iwl4965 and driver merging policy

2007-09-27 Thread John W. Linville
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 11:39:27AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Just a little question in the light of the discussion we had at Kernel > Summit about merging drivers upstream (and here, I strongly agree with > Linus, hence my message). You must not have been watching me SPAM netdev for

Re: iwl4965 and driver merging policy

2007-09-27 Thread Theodore Tso
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 11:39:27AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > Just a little question in the light of the discussion we had at Kernel > Summit about merging drivers upstream (and here, I strongly agree with > Linus, hence my message). > > I just got that new T61 laptop which happens

iwl4965 and driver merging policy

2007-09-27 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Hi ! Just a little question in the light of the discussion we had at Kernel Summit about merging drivers upstream (and here, I strongly agree with Linus, hence my message). I just got that new T61 laptop which happens to have an iwl4xxx chip. The distro I installed on it (ubuntu) has a driver for