From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Mikhail Gusarov <dottedmag@dottedmag.net>,
debian-kernel@lists.debian.org, NetDev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ancient ieee80211/ipw2200 drivers in recent kernel (2.6.14)
Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 00:21:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051105002100.GA24128@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051104032918.GE4708@verge.net.au>
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 12:29:20PM +0900, Horms wrote:
> 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?
Well, we could upstream, but so far no one is annoyed enough to
overrid the driver maintainer. I'd suggest merging a more recent
driver into the debian kernel package.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-05 0:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <873bmg9sym.fsf@vertex.dottedmag.net>
2005-11-02 2:09 ` ancient ieee80211/ipw2200 drivers in recent kernel (2.6.14) Horms
2005-11-02 3:44 ` Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
2005-11-02 6:54 ` Mikhail Gusarov
2005-11-02 16:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-11-04 3:29 ` Horms
2005-11-05 0:21 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2005-11-05 8:25 ` Harald Welte
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