Re: Broadcom 43xx first results

[Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>]

Hi!

> > That's because you still don't get how we do development.  The last thing
> > we want is full-scale rewrites.  Submit patches to fix things based on
> > whatever you want but do it incremental.
> 
> We have got almost finished and working stack. Everything we need to do
> is:
> 1. identify issues;
> 2. fix the issues; some of them will need broader discussion;
> 3. split it into several (potentially a lot of) reviewable patches;
> 4. clean up the drivers.
> 
> I'm in phase 2 now (no interesting results yet). I don't think it is

No, it does not work like that. You don't get nice, reviewable,
mergeable patches by developing code independently for 3 years or so
then attempting merge.

If devicescape code is better than mainline, merge it _now_. If it is
not, drop it and start from mainline code.

> And if you are familiar with the current in-kernel 802.11 code (and if
> you know at least two different drivers), you will probably agree that
> many things have to be changed in the current code even if we decided to
> build on the top of it, so the result will finally differ a lot and will
> be almost incompatible with the current code.

That's okay; as long as incremental way exist, first version not being
compatible with last version is not a problem.
								Pavel

-- 
Thanks, Sharp!
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