On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 20:41 -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 06:40:54PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Dan Williams wrote: > > >I'll audit the list of ioctls and remove ones that may be objectionable, > > >and we'll go back through them after 2.6.22 and add back in ones that > > >are actually required. Keep the API/ABI small and expand if necessary. > > >What's the timeframe required here? Linville said a few days at the > > >most. > > > > Ideally, before 2.6.22-rc1. No set date, but generally it's a week or > > two after merge window opens. > > > > But even if you miss -rc1, we MUST get in the ioctl removal before > > 2.6.22 release. This is certainly exception to the "nothing but bug > > fixes" rule -- or perhaps it is following the rule, if you consider the > > ioctls' existence a bug :) > > > > Getting the CodingStyle fixes in before 2.6.22-rc1 would be nice, but, > > as I noted, lower priority than serious stuff like ioctl consideration. > > There is also a bunch of updates pending. I'm sending them over this > week. > > Dan: I'll be sending everything thats currently in our tree but not > mainline.
I'm going through the ioctls as we speak... what else was pending? Louis has a few on libertas-dev list. We also need to pull wireless-2.6 into libertas before we send linville a pull request, I think. Dan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
