Re: Please pull 'revert-libertas' branch of wireless-2.6 (was Re: Please pull 'libertas' branch of wireless-2.6)
From: John W. Linville <hidden>
Date: 2007-05-07 16:03:08
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From: John W. Linville <hidden>
Date: 2007-05-07 16:03:08
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On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 11:22:34AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
Open source is about release early, release often. Not "hide code in a dark corner until Christoph thinks it is perfect." We have high standards for upstream merged code, but that standard is not perfection. Perfect is the enemy of good. I would rather see the libertas-2.6 git changes pulled into upstream, and am not inclined to revert a WORKING DRIVER at this point, a driver that is actively maintained and has seen quite a bit of improvement since it initially appeared.
Perhaps I was a bit hasty. Given Dan's response I thought that I had missed something. But, you are right -- the driver works now, and Dan and company are sure to be around to keep working on it.
Plus, that leaves the kernel history less polluted.
Consider the request withdrawn. Thanks, John -- John W. Linville linville@tuxdriver.com