Re: Stable compat-wireless 2.6.32-rc4 released

[Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>]

Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Kunal Gangakhedkar
> <kunal.gangakhedkar@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wednesday 14 Oct 2009 6:20:33 am Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>>> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
>> wrote:
>>>> Speaking as a distro, what advantage does the stable wireless backport
>>>> offer for the currently released kernel if we are already consumers of
>>>> stable updates?
>>> Well if you are a distro stuck on the 2.6.31 kernel the stable
>>> compat-wireless-2.6.32 gets you 2.6.32 wireless bits on 2.6.31 and
>>> that means any features/drivers/large fixes/enhancements that didn't
>>> make it to 2.6.31.
>>>
>> Isn't this the whole purpose of linux-backports-modules in ubuntu as well?
> 
> Yes, but lbm currently relies on the bleeding edge compat-wireless
> which is exactly that -- bleeding edge, it may or may not work. The
> stable compat-wireless releases are based on the latest stable kernel
> releases and latest rc kernel release so they are deemed to be stable
> snapshots following the kernel release cycle.
> 
>   Luis
> 

I am currently in the process of adopting compat-wireless-2.6.32-rc4 in
Karmic LBM.

Luis - Have I remembered to thank you for all your hard work?

rtg
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner@canonical.com