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

[Michael Wu <fla...@so...>]

Quoting Jeff Garzik <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.
>
>
If it has a version, then only the maintainer can submit patches - 
otherwise the
version is useless for identifying what code you're running. (unless other
submitters decide to alter the version too, which is probably not a good idea)

>> 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 driver are so hopelessly out of date in mainline just after submission that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.
>
I wish those patches were submitted and merged quickly when they were created
instead of piling up. Other people can't get patches merged because it would
break the chain of patches. Patches are being sent too late and infrequently..

-Michael Wu