Re: [PATCH] Slowly update in-kernel orinoco drivers to upstream current CVS

[David Gibson]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 04:15:59PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, Francois Romieu wrote:
> 
> >A serie of patches is available for at:
> >http://www.fr.zoreil.com/linux/kernel/2.6.x/2.6.7-mm7
> >
> >It contains 12 patches and applies against 2.6.7-mm7. The patches are
> >commented. The comments are partly taken from the cvs log by Pavel Roskin.
> 
> I hope the patches lead to the CVS version on the "for_linus" branch which 
> has no compatibility code.  I'm quite comfortable with the "for_linus" and 
> "Standalone" branches.
> 
> As for the HEAD branch, it has unfinished (skeleton only) prism_usb driver 
> meant for Intersil Prism USB devices (such as DWL-122).  It also has 
> working orinoco_usb driver.  Unfortunately, I don't feel good about that 
> code.  The way how this code is integrated with the common code is 
> questionable.  A lot of work would be needed to handle USB better. 
> That's not something that could be done before the next release.

I concur.

> I'm very busy now and I don't have time to finish the little bits I 
> planned for the 0.15 release.  However, the CVS version on the "for_linus" 
> branch is releasable and has no known regressions compared to any previous 
> version.  Feel free to apply the patches to the kernel now.  I expect to 
> have more time for free software in the end of August.

Good to hear.

> If David is OK, we could release the current code as version 0.15.  I'm OK 
> with it.  I have to adapt my ambitions to my time constraints.  

I'm reasonably comfortable with that.  I now have a handful of things
to commit before 0.15 which I've picked up while doing the merge with
mainline, but it's just whitespace and other trivialities.

> I'll 
> appreciate if my name is added to the MAINTAINERS file once the new driver 
> is committed.

Absolutely.  Haven't put that patch together yet, but it's coming :)

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