[Ieee80211-devel] Re: [PATCH 24/29] ieee80211 Updated misc. copyright dates and added version reporting

[Jeff G. <jg...@po...>]

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> I mean not having versioning at all.  The kernel version should uniqueuely
> identify major subsystems, not a version of it's own.  Development will
> happen in the kernel tree anyway, and you should better start submitting
> patches often and early or you will get ouf of sync with all the development
> going on in mainline.

Maintainer's choice.


> That early and often thing is true for drivers aswell, the intel wireless
> driver are so hopelessly out of date in mainline just after submission that
> it's not funny anymore.  Hopefully we'll have a mainline maintainer for
> them soon that imports everything important from intel and other contributors.

Patience:  We still have over 20 patches to merge, before even getting 
to the ipw updates.

	Jeff