Jeff Garzik wrote:
* Release early, release often. Pushing from an external repository to
the official kernel tree every few months creates more problems
than it solves. Out-of-tree drivers fail to take advantage of
recent kernel changes and coding practices, which leads to bugs and
incompatibilities. Slow pushing leads to huge periodic updates,
which are awful for debugging, testing, and general use.
I think this is an especially big problem, from a user's perspective at
least.. I'm tired of patching up my laptop kernel with the latest
ieee80211 and ipw2200 on every update because the mainline kernel
contains an ancient version which is almost useless to me, and the Intel
guys apparently don't feel like merging newer versions upstream until
they get it perfect, or something..
I'm sure this would make it easier for other driver developers to work
with the ieee80211 stack as well, if the current version wasn't
maintained entirely out of tree for all intents and purposes..
The other complaint I have is that there's just too much breakage
happening.. you update the wireless driver, then you have to update the
wireless tools, then maybe WPA Supplicant stops working, etc. etc.
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