Re: Compat-wireless release for 2010-10-25 is baked

["Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Johannes Stezenbach <js@sig21.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 08:59:04AM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 5:35 AM, Johannes Stezenbach <js@sig21.net> wrote:
>> >
>> > I wonder about the different tarballs in
>> > http://wireless.kernel.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/
>> >
>> > compat-wireless-2010-10-25.tar.bz2
>> > compat-wireless-2010-10-25-p.tar.bz2
>> > compat-wireless-2010-10-25-pc.tar.bz2
>> >
>> > Those -p and -pc postfixes are not explained in
>> > http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download
>>
>> Right, sorry, I haven't updated the docs to add documentation for
>> them. First please read:
>>
>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=128716953726075&w=2
>>
>> -s is for getting and applying pending-stable/ fixes
>> -n is for applying the patches linux-next-cherry-picks directory
>> -p is for applying the patches on the linux-next-pending directory
>> -s is for applying the patches on the crap directory
>  -c
>
>> Hope this helps.
>
> Definitively, thank you very much.  Meanwhile I also found
> scripts/admin-update.sh in compat-wireless which seems to
> generate the release tarballs.
>
> It looks like, if I want to test the latest rt2x00 code, I could
> clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ivd/rt2x00.git,
> checkout experimental, and then run admin-update.sh with
> GIT_TREE=path/to/rt2x00-experimental.  Right?

Yeap, if rt2x00-experimental is based on linux-next.git. If its based
on wireless-testing.git then you can use the "wl" branch of
compat-wireless, but I tend to not keep that as up to date as the
linux-next.git branch so likely the "wl" branch doesn't apply cleanly
right now with wireless-testing.git as the GIT_TREE.

> Or (maybe better?), clone linux-next, merge rt2x00.git and use
> the merged tree as GIT_TREE for admin-update.sh.

It just depends on the original tree is a clone from and what branch
you use on compat-wireless. The master branch is for linux-next.git,
the "wl" branch is for wireless-testing.git. Every now and then I just
reset the "wl" branch (you'll have to 'git reset --hard wl') to the
master branch and revert any patches that do not apply.

> Well so just
> But according to
> http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/pipermail/users_rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/2010-October/002175.html
> the compat-rt2x00 tarballs seem to be made manually?

Too lazy to check that, best thing might be to just focus on upstream
development, ensuring patches get into linux-next.git and having your
users just use the daily tarballs and stable releases for stable
stuff.

> Sorry for stupid questions, I want to get into rt2x00 development
> but I need to target a stable 2.6.32 kernel and I'm trying to figure
> out which git tree to base my work on.

My advice, work on wireless-testing.git, send patches ASAP, and let
them propagate. Use the daily tarballs for user testing and for stable
release you can support users using the stable compat-wireless
releases.

Hope this helps.

  Luis