Re: Please pull 'revert-libertas' branch of wireless-2.6 (was Re: Please pull 'libertas' branch of wireless-2.6)

[John W. Linville]

On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 11:22:34AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> Open source is about release early, release often.  Not "hide code in a 
> dark corner until Christoph thinks it is perfect."  We have high 
> standards for upstream merged code, but that standard is not perfection. 
>  Perfect is the enemy of good.
> 
> I would rather see the libertas-2.6 git changes pulled into upstream, 
> and am not inclined to revert a WORKING DRIVER at this point, a driver 
> that is actively maintained and has seen quite a bit of improvement 
> since it initially appeared.

Perhaps I was a bit hasty.  Given Dan's response I thought that I
had missed something.

But, you are right -- the driver works now, and Dan and company are
sure to be around to keep working on it.

> Plus, that leaves the kernel history less polluted.

Consider the request withdrawn.

Thanks,

John
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John W. Linville
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