Rahul Sundaram wrote:
I don't think the Fedora kernel developers ever try to "improve" something like a WiFi module, anyway.
There has been a hell lot of misinformation in this thread but this one takes it to a whole new level. Fedora/Red Hat developer John Linville (http://people.redhat.com/linville/) is the upstream wireless subsystem maintainer for the Linux kernel.
Sorry, but if they do actually try to improve on Linus' team in this area I wish they wouldn't.
I admit I am not a great fan of Fedora kernels - I normally compile my own from the vanilla kernels (I haven't got round to 2.6.22 yet) and I have never found a distribution kernel from Fedora or anyone else which worked any better for me than the standard kernel. (I've found many that worked worse.)
I regard the kernel and the distribution as more or less orthogonal. If I actually had to run a non-standard kernel in order to run Fedora I would probably move to another distribution. Not a common point of view, I'm sure, but mine.
If you really want to know what changed in between these kernels, take a look at the changelog or the cvs. Hint: it's not a typo.
I'm not sure where one finds either of these - presumably with the kernel source? (I looked at the developer's URL you gave, but didn't find anything there.)
I did think of downloading the two kernel sources, and comparing the SPEC files, but decided life was too short.