On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 20:41 -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 06:40:54PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Dan Williams wrote:
> > >I'll audit the list of ioctls and remove ones that may be objectionable,
> > >and we'll go back through them after 2.6.22 and add back in ones that
> > >are actually required. Keep the API/ABI small and expand if necessary.
> > >What's the timeframe required here? Linville said a few days at the
> > >most.
> >
> > Ideally, before 2.6.22-rc1. No set date, but generally it's a week or
> > two after merge window opens.
> >
> > But even if you miss -rc1, we MUST get in the ioctl removal before
> > 2.6.22 release. This is certainly exception to the "nothing but bug
> > fixes" rule -- or perhaps it is following the rule, if you consider the
> > ioctls' existence a bug :)
> >
> > Getting the CodingStyle fixes in before 2.6.22-rc1 would be nice, but,
> > as I noted, lower priority than serious stuff like ioctl consideration.
>
> There is also a bunch of updates pending. I'm sending them over this
> week.
>
> Dan: I'll be sending everything thats currently in our tree but not
> mainline.
I'm going through the ioctls as we speak... what else was pending?
Louis has a few on libertas-dev list. We also need to pull wireless-2.6
into libertas before we send linville a pull request, I think.
Dan
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