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