Re: changes to Linux wireless maintenance

2014-12-22 Thread Matt Chen
Thank you for great work, John. :) Although I met you one time when in New Orlean Linux wifi summit, that was great to meet every cool guys there. :P Thanks, Matt Chen 2014-12-22 1:07 GMT+08:00 John W. Linville linvi...@tuxdriver.com: On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 10:50:40AM +0100, Arend van Spriel

Re: changes to Linux wireless maintenance

2014-12-21 Thread John W. Linville
On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 10:50:40AM +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote: The trees work similarly like John's wireless and wireless-next trees, the former only for important bugfixes to -rc releases and the latter for the rest going to the next release. So are you dropping the wireless-testing

Re: changes to Linux wireless maintenance

2014-12-18 Thread Kalle Valo
John W. Linville wrote: Nevertheless, I think it is time for some changes. I have been the wireless maintainer for a long time, and I personally would like to develop in a different direction. Plus, I think that Linux will benefit from having some fresh blood involved in more of the

Re: changes to Linux wireless maintenance

2014-12-18 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2014-12-17 at 10:59 -0500, John W. Linville wrote: Greetings, Almost 9 years ago, Jeff Garzik wrote a message on LKML detailing the sad state of wireless LANs in the Linux world. The point of his message was So... there it is. We suck. There's hope. No Luke Skywalker in sight.:

Re: changes to Linux wireless maintenance

2014-12-18 Thread Luca Coelho
Hi John, On Wed, 2014-12-17 at 10:59 -0500, John W. Linville wrote: Greetings, Almost 9 years ago, Jeff Garzik wrote a message on LKML detailing the sad state of wireless LANs in the Linux world. The point of his message was So... there it is. We suck. There's hope. No Luke Skywalker

changes to Linux wireless maintenance

2014-12-17 Thread John W. Linville
Greetings, Almost 9 years ago, Jeff Garzik wrote a message on LKML detailing the sad state of wireless LANs in the Linux world. The point of his message was So... there it is. We suck. There's hope. No Luke Skywalker in sight.: https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/5/671 Shortly thereafter,

Re: changes to Linux wireless maintenance

2014-12-17 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi John, Almost 9 years ago, Jeff Garzik wrote a message on LKML detailing the sad state of wireless LANs in the Linux world. The point of his message was So... there it is. We suck. There's hope. No Luke Skywalker in sight.: https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/5/671 Shortly

Re: changes to Linux wireless maintenance

2014-12-17 Thread Larry Finger
On 12/17/2014 09:59 AM, John W. Linville wrote: Greetings, Almost 9 years ago, Jeff Garzik wrote a message on LKML detailing the sad state of wireless LANs in the Linux world. The point of his message was So... there it is. We suck. There's hope. No Luke Skywalker in sight.:

Re: changes to Linux wireless maintenance

2014-12-17 Thread Johannes Berg
Nevertheless, I think it is time for some changes. I have been the wireless maintainer for a long time, and I personally would like to develop in a different direction. Plus, I think that Linux will benefit from having some fresh blood involved in more of the maintenance duties. I will be

Re: changes to Linux wireless maintenance

2014-12-17 Thread Nick Kossifidis
Hello John ! It's been a long time since I committed anything on wireless-testing but I'll never forget your support and guidance when we started ath5k, the beautiful events you organized that brought this team together and the fun we had. You are awesome man ! Enjoy Christmas with your family