On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 7:22 AM, Harrison Lee <harrisonl@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote= : > Compat-wireless drivers have been very useful to users like us, who have = to work with embedded linux system based on old kernel. For example, we wor= k on a arm based system with 2.6.28 kernel, and could use ath9k drivers tha= nks to compat-wireless-3.6.8-1. The company who provided the SDK, a big nam= e company, does not have any plan to upgrade the kernel, so we are stuck wi= th it due to all the customized drivers for the chip. compat-wireless is ancient and anyone giving you anything like a release like that is not giving you the best, which is the latest, and that is anything based on the latest kernel releases, right now, v3.14 based which I hope today to make a release. > But the situation seems to be changing. Compat-drivers does not support 2= .6.28 any more for ath9k. It only supports from 2.6.30 according to "depend= encies" list. compat-drivers is ancient as well, the new project is backports and we will be deprecating older kernels to help us scale better. > I've just joined the mailing list to learn how to backport wwan drivers. = And the first message I see is about dumping supports for older kernels... wwan drivers backports are welcomed, but backporting it to ancient kenrels, anything below 3.0 is not something I wish to take on now given the overhead and as I noted the objectives to scale. > Would there be any alternatives for old kernel users, then? You could upkeep the maintenance yourself on a separate tree. Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe backports" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
