On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 08:44:08PM +0100, Jean Francois Martinez wrote:
Question if I fix it again what are the chances it ends in Fedora?
How
are orphaned drivers handled in the kernel? Someone, who doesn't seem
to be the original author, has been ensuring the 1.x continues compiling
in 2.6.27 despite the changes in interface.
No, only if it ends up in upstream kernel will it be in Fedora.
You might try submitting the driver and fixes to Greg K-H's "Linux
Staging" tree:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/10/329