RE: Bumping required kernels to 3.0 for Linux backports ?

["Harrison Lee" <harrisonl@tme-inc.com>]

Compat-wireless drivers have been very useful to users like us, who have to work with embedded linux system based on old kernel. For example, we work on a arm based system with 2.6.28 kernel, and could use ath9k drivers thanks to compat-wireless-3.6.8-1. The company who provided the SDK, a big name company, does not have any plan to upgrade the kernel, so we are stuck with it due to all the customized drivers for the chip.

But the situation seems to be changing. Compat-drivers does not support 2.6.28 any more for ath9k. It only supports from 2.6.30 according to "dependencies" list.

I've just joined the mailing list to learn how to backport wwan drivers. And the first message I see is about dumping supports for older kernels...

Would there be any alternatives for old kernel users, then?

Harrison

> 
> That's two stakeholders for 3.0 -- but nothing is voiced for anything
> older than that. Today I will rip the older kernels into oblivion.
> Thanks for all the feedback!
> 
>  Luis
 

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