Re: [Madwifi-devel] [Fwd: Re: [Madwifi-cvs] revision 1532 committed by proski]

[Kel M. <ke...@tp...>]

Pavel Roskin wrote:
>> The way the hal is packaged was carefully thought out.  That you changed 
>> it w/o consulting me is very annoying.
>>     
>
> Sorry, I didn't mean to annoy anyone.  I'm actually trying to streamline
> the Madwifi build system to make it less annoying and more resilient
> with respect to constant changes in the kernel.
>
>   
>>   If you want something that is 
>> self-describing we can add information to the .uu file (e.g. .inc 
>> contents).  What you've done, for example, means I cannot diff against 
>> the vendor release to see if files have changed.
>>     
>
> You can write a script.  You can use sha1.  Many users cannot even
> understand the error message about uudecode, download and install
> sharutils.  And we don't give the end users the option of having their
> wireless cards supported out-of-box, because Madwifi cannot be a part of
> the kernel.  Shouldn't we be thinking about end users first?
>   

I'd like to emphatically support Pavel's intent with respect to his 
recent changesets to madwifi svn (note, "intent"). We are not out to 
annoy you Sam, rather we are trying to provide the best public service 
we can, in our own personal time. I hope that can be appreciated, and 
that we can find a method to deal with this crap without any further 
unnecessary "annoyances" for either party.

Thanks, Kel.