Fedora too cutting edge?
Kevin Kofler
kevin.kofler at chello.at
Thu Jan 10 01:57:23 UTC 2008
John W. Linville <linville <at> redhat.com> writes:
> FWIW, I get criticized for pushing too much brand-new wireless
> bits into the Fedora kernels. Simultaneously (often the very same
> days) I get criticized for taking more than a day or two to get new
> upstream wireless patches merged into the Fedora kernels. There is
> no winning...
I think you're doing the right thing, these backports are the reason wireless
works for much more people on Fedora than on the average other distro. And that
despite Fedora not including proprietary junk like madwifi (what's the state of
ath5k by the way?) or ndiswrapper (yuck!).
Kevin Kofler
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