On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 12:32:23PM -0500, Bob Copeland wrote: > As reported previously[1], John Linville will be moving on from maintenance > of the wireless-testing[2] tree at the end of the year. A huge thank you to > John for doing all this work for so many years! > > We now have a shared wireless directory on kernel.org where we (currently > myself and Kalle as backup) will continue to maintain this tree going > forward. The new tree can be found at: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-testing.git > > Note: unlike John's tree, we are going to try rebasing this tree on every > build (like linux-next) instead of merging the downstream trees, in order > to avoid certain merge problems when those trees are rebased. > > This means that if you are working directly off of wireless-testing, use > 'git pull --rebase' to sync, instead of just 'git pull'. > > We'll see how this goes and reassess after a couple of cycles. > > Please let me know of any issues. > > [1] http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/145291 > > [2] wireless-testing is an integration testing tree, consisting of: > > * Linus's latest -rc > * patches in mac80211 and wireless-drivers (for the upcoming release) > * patches in mac80211-next and wireless-drivers-next (for the next release) > > It is not pulled into any upstream tree, but it should be a pretty good > indication of what is baking in Linux wireless for the next release, without > having unrelated changes from all the other subsystems as in linux-next.
Given this most welcome announcement, I will hereby cease maintenance of the predecessor wireless-testing tree in favor of this new canonical source. Thanks guys! John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you [email protected] might be all we have. Be ready. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
