... at Kernel > Summit about merging drivers upstream (and here, I strongly ... on it (ubuntu) has a driver for it. I suspect > others ... a lot of opposition to merging it until fairly recently. In ... are less than happy about merging it now. Anyway, coming soon ...

linux-kernel - John W. Linville - Sep 27 2007 - 22:30

... in time for the 2.6.23 merge window, but even if it was there ... we standed with this whole idea that driver additions were not necessarily constrainted by the merge window (which ... version was included by users/distros and try to support it, in addition to ...

linux-kernel - Benjamin Herrenschmidt - Sep 27 2007 - 23:15

... we had at Kernel > Summit about merging drivers upstream (and here, I strongly agree ... I installed on it (ubuntu) has a driver for it. I suspect > others do too and most users get it from some ... : there is just no point not merging > it at any time right ? ...

linux-kernel - Theodore Tso - Sep 27 2007 - 22:47

... are less than > > happy about merging it now. > Out of curiosity, ... has been partitioned between the driver and the firmware, issues with ... or not done at all, and some random complaints about ugliness ... to be done on this driver, but as you point out ...

linux-kernel - John W. Linville - Sep 28 2007 - 09:28

... we had at Kernel Summit about merging drivers upstream (and here, I strongly agree with ... I installed on it (ubuntu) has a driver for it. I suspect others do too and most users get it from some ... : there is just no point not merging it at any time right ? ...

linux-kernel - Benjamin Herrenschmidt - Sep 27 2007 - 21:39

... production kernel by taking > 2.6.23-rc8, and doing a git pull from the everything branch ... would be really nice if it could get > merged in for 2.6.24. Yes, I ... though since it seems it's been around and useable for some time. Cheers, Ben. - ...

linux-kernel - Benjamin Herrenschmidt - Sep 27 2007 - 23:07

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?

linux-kernel - Jiri Kosina - Oct 1 2007 - 04:24