When will we stop shipping WLAN improvements ahead of upstream in released Fedora version?

Chuck Ebbert cebbert at redhat.com
Tue Aug 5 21:05:33 UTC 2008


John W. Linville wrote:
> 
> I still think that for continuity's sake f8 and f9 should continue
> to get wireless fixes from 2.6.27.  Those should only be specific
> bug fixes (although I suppose there is still time for a new driver),
> so hopefully the nattering nabobs won't be opposed to continuing with
> that part of the original plan.
> 

If you push wireless fixes to -stable Fedora would then get them for "free".
I don't see many wireless patches in there generally, though the ath5k
memory corruption fix just went in.

And new drivers would be great. Lots of people seem to want ath9k, for
example.




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