On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 12:21:11PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote: > > Are you proposing this for _just_ 14 ? In which case, I'd be fine with > > that, because we're not rebasing it. > > > > For 15 onwards, I don't think this is worth it. > > Until 3.1 is released, F14 is the only release that can use it anyway. > That said, I would like to use it there if nothing else. > > As for F15 and beyond, current-1 can still be enough delta to cause > problems. Also, obstacles against updating kernel releases can be > unpredictable. > > Maybe we could have it in the .spec file for all the releases, but have > it turned-off by default? Then at least it is there if we need it. > > Using compat-wireless is a good way to make even more up-to-date > hardware support available in Fedora at nearly no cost to us. I would > really like to see us take advantage of it. Another possibility is just using git-wireless in f15/f16 and beyond. Which we've done before.. I'm thinking along the lines of having stuff just work by default rather than having users file bugs when something breaks, and then having to tell them 'oh, install compat-wireless'. Dave _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel
