Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

["Ray Lee" <ray-lk@madrabbit.org>]

On Dec 14, 2007 8:27 AM, Ray Lee <ray-lk@madrabbit.org> wrote:
> On Dec 14, 2007 6:40 AM,  <stefano.brivio@polimi.it> wrote:
> > Agreed. As a b43legacy maintainer, I'd be happy to know if Ingo
> > suggests other ways to smooth out the transition. I haven't read
> > proposals yet.
>
> This isn't rocket science guys. Put a file in somewhere in your tree
> called ReleaseAnnouncement or something, and ask Linus to adjust his
> kernel release process to include the contents of `cat $( find . -name
> ReleaseAnnouncement )` in the release message he sends out. Clear out
> the file after the release.
>
> Include things such as "bcm43xx is scheduled for removal. build both
> b43 and b43legacy as a replacement. Be sure to download the latest
> firmware from $URL and follow the instructions there to extract the
> correct latest firmware necessary for your chip. There are known
> incompatibilities with old udev versions, please ensure blah blah
> blah."

Or even better, keep the history, and show the diff of the old versus
new in the release announcement, with an appropriate sed 's/+/ /' or
somesuch.

<shrug> I'm sure you all will figure something out. Regardless, my
point is a higher level changelog that is human readable would be
helpful. (There are thousands of per-commit changelog entries to read,
it's beyond what I have the time to do when testing a new kernel).
Also, it seems distributing the release announcement work would be as
helpful as distributing the code development work.

Ray