Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 08 Mar 2007 04:59:17 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | ext4, wireless (was Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1) |
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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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