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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: ancient ieee80211/ipw2200 drivers in recent kernel (2.6.14)
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 16:26:21 +0000
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On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 12:54:09PM +0600, Mikhail Gusarov wrote:
> So, having in mind the two levels of 'stablenesss': kernel
> 'stableness' and modules 'stableness' :) we should find the way to
> exclude discussed modules from the build, because in-kernel versions
> will always be, erm..., slightly (1.0.0 is mentioned only as 'stone
> age' in the mailing list of ipw2200 developers) outdated due to fact
> integration and testing gets some time in upstream kernels. I propose
> just to disable compilation of this drivers: everyone will be able to
> compile the recent version using ipw2200-source we provide.

The kernel drivers aren't stable but obsolete.  Because of that ever
distribution that supports it's users must patch in a more recent one,
which is what we should do for debian aswell.

It's a pity the braindead Intel policies don't allow us to have an uptodate
driver in mainline.