Re: Stable compat-wireless 2.6.32-rc4 released

[Kunal Gangakhedkar <kunal.gangakhedkar@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday 14 Oct 2009 8:04:32 pm 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

Got that - thanks for the explanation :)

Kunal