Re: ancient ieee80211/ipw2200 drivers in recent kernel (2.6.14)

[Horms <horms@debian.org>]

On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 04:26:21PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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 age' in the mailing list of ipw2200 developers) outdated due to fact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.

Christoph, 

do I take that comment to mean that upstream can't update the
drivers but Debian can? And if so, do you recommend updating 
Debian's kernel packages, or putting the updates elsewhere?

-- 
Horms