New location for wireless-testing tree
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.
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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.gitNote: 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:
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* 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
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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.gitNote: 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)
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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.
Somewhat related. I started a while ago to mirror our internal development tree to korg. You'll find there the bleeding edge of iwlwifi's development: both fixes and new features. It is a backport based tree. Pretty much all the patches for mac80211{-next}.git that we (Intel) send come from there as well. Note that this is the "raw data" (including Change-IDs and server that are inside Intel's intranet) which I later edit to send patches upstream. I merge mac80211.git and mac80211-next.git to that tree to get mac80211 patches that come from upstream. In a sense, this tree looks like a backport of wireless-testing with content that is not there yet. You'll also find there "stable branches" that go through more thorough test cycles against their matching firmware version.
I am not sure anyone is interested, but if someone wants, the tree is here:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/iwlwifi/backport-iwlwifi.git/
A bit more info on the "stable branches":
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/iwlwifi/core_release
Drop me an email if you start to use this tree just to know if people are really using it :)