On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 08:15:59PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > >> > I had the same confusion. So there are 3 drivers around: The vendor > >> > driver, the staging driver which is a fork of the vendor driver and > >> > the serialmonkey driver. Multiply that by 3 for rt2860, rt2870 and > >> > rt3070. And this leads to another confusion. Do (or will) the Fedora > >> > kernels have these staging drivers compiled by default? If that's the > >> > case and if the staging driver is as stable as the original vendor > >> > driver, I won't have to maintain those kmods anymore. > >> > >> The fedora kernel developers have always stated that the > >> staging/vendor drivers will never get enabled. Only once the other > >> ones are ready will they be turned on. > >> > > > > No we haven't, we've stated that they'll be enabled if someone steps up > > to the plate to make an active contribution to maintenance and > > improvements. > > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KernelStagingPolicy > > Sorry, hadn't seen that. Was basing it on the comment in this bug > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463111 > Yeah, the wireless drivers are "special" since the vendor drivers, as stated elsewhere, usually supply their own entire 802.11 stack and other ugliness. I don't want to speak for John, but I suspect if someone stepped up to maintain a staging wireless driver in the interim, he wouldn't object. regards, Kyle -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
