Re: Stable compat-wireless 2.6.32-rc4 released

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>>
>> As the kernel moves along so does the automatic stable backports for
>> the wireless subsystem [1]. We are now on 2.6.32-rc4. Besides getting
>> the same fixes from rc1..rc4 some backport changes were made as well,
>> most importantly that of relying on your own kernel's iw_handler.h.
>> I've tested this release with 2.6.28.
>>
>> Please report any issues you see.
>>
>> [1] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download/stable
>>
>> PS. If you maintain a distribution and rely on stable compat-wireless
>> releases please let me know so I can CC you when further updates are
>> made.
>>
>> ÂLuis
>>
>
> Speaking as a distro, what advantage does the stable wireless backport offer
> for the currently released kernel if we are already consumers of stable
> updates?

Well if you are a distro stuck on the 2.6.31 kernel the stable
compat-wireless-2.6.32 gets you 2.6.32 wireless bits on 2.6.31 and
that means any features/drivers/large fixes/enhancements that didn't
make it to 2.6.31.

  Luis
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