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

Kyle McMartin kyle at mcmartin.ca
Tue Aug 5 21:55:00 UTC 2008


On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 05:05:33PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> 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.
>

John has been forwarding me fixes, I just haven't gotten around to
applying them yet. Will do so tonight.

r, Kyle




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