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Subjectext4, wireless (was Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1)
Andrew Morton wrote:
> - The wireless changes in here need a lot of testers, please. It is major
> rework.
>
> Of course the config files got all changed around so `make oldconfig'
> breaks everything. I was able to get ipw2200 working after some fumbling,
> but perhaps John can tell people what has been changed in there? What has
> happened, from a big picture perspective?

The big big pictures is that Linux is getting a new wireless stack, one
that active developers seem to agree on. It /should/ support all the
old wireless-tools binaries out there, except the wext/netlink stuff
that people want to kill.


> - Re-added the ext4 development tree to the -mm lineup. It has stuff in
> it.

IMO I've been a bit disappointed at the rate of development. I had
hoped that patches to ext4 would be making it into mainline more rapidly.

Jeff


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