* wireless-dev dead, long live wireless-2.6
@ 2007-10-04 18:47 John W. Linville
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From: John W. Linville @ 2007-10-04 18:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-wireless; +Cc: netdev
Greetings,
This message is perhaps a few days late -- better late than never. :-)
The big news is that wireless-dev is now dead, defunct, kaput.
Please discontinue any use of wireless-dev or any of its clones.
If you need access to the contents of that tree for historical
purposes, please see the snapshot in my wireless-legacy tree:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-legacy.git wireless-dev-2007-09-24
I will remove the wireless-dev repository from kernel.org shortly
after sending this message. From now on, please use the 'everything'
branch of wireless-2.6 as the base for new wireless development.
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6.git everything
Please note that this branch is subject to rebasing. In general
it will be rebased whenever Linus christens a new -rcX release,
sometimes more often than that. "git rebase" and "git cherry-pick"
are your friends.
As always, patches based on a vanilla tree from Linus (or the
'master' branch of wireless-2.6) are acceptable or even preferable
for those patches which do not depend on other pathes already in the
wireless-2.6 tree. Otherwise, base your patches on the 'everything'
branch as described above.
Most of the other branches in wireless-2.6 are only there for
administrative purposes. You can and should ignore them, with possibly
a couple of exceptions.
One of two possible branches of interest to some is the
'mac80211-attic' branch. This branch mostly contains patches
supporting hostap functionality for mac80211. These patches will
not be merged as-is due to unsettled user interface issues. I have
preserved them on this branch solely as a courtesy to those who need
this functionality. I expect for this functionality to be replaced
RSN by work underway from Johannes Berg.
The other possible branch of interest is the 'mac80211-dungeon'
branch. This branch contains several patches for 802.11n and other
advanced functionality (e.g. DLS). However, the mac80211 component
maintainers have strongly objected to these patches for a variety
of reasons. The various parties are still working to resolve the
issues preventing these patches from being merged. In the meantime
I have preserved these patches on this branch as a courtesy to those
who need them as well.
I hope this message clears-up some questions that people have been
expressing. If there are other questions, please feel free to ask.
Thanks!
John
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John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com
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