On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 09:11:50PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 03:37:28PM -0400, Jon Masters wrote: > > Sure, it'll hopefully land in staging and be in the rawhide kernel in > > due course, but given that I'm lazy and bought the netbook in question > > specifically to run rawhide(!), would there be huge objections to a > > patch sooner that pulled in this driver until it's there officially? > > Sure, it's experimental, but it's self-contained and this is rawhide. > > Let me know if this would be just a silly/bad idea. > > Pretty much. We're reluctant to enable anything in staging until it's > clear that it's going to form the basis of ongoing development (rather > than being neglected and b43 gaining support), and we'd want an > indication that John Linville's willing to deal with the bugs. Breaking > suspend/resume is an absolute dealbreaker at present. I would prefer not to 'jump the gun', for the reasons Matthew stated. That said, I would strongly encourage you (i.e. jcm) and anyone else to continue contributing to brcm80211 in order to help it transition to drivers/net/wireless ASAP. If you would prefer to use brcm80211 as a hardware guide for improving b43, that's find by me too. :-) John -- John W. Linville The truth will set you free, but first it will linville@xxxxxxxxxx make you miserable. -- James A. Garfield _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel
