On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 10:58:13AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > Ok, how about the following patch. Is it acceptable to everyone? > > - If you are using a distro that was released in 2006 or later, > - it should be safe to say N here. > + If you are using an OpenSuSE, Gentoo, Ubuntu, or Fedora > + release from 2007 or later, it should be safe to say N here. > + > + If you are using Debian or other distros that are slow to > + update HAL, please say Y here. What HAL version do you think Debian ought to have, pray tell? And what the hell version do those other distros have? The last HAL release was 0.5.8 on 11-Sep-2006. It showed up in Debian/unstable on 2-Oct. There have been six Debian bugfix releases, the most recent on 12-Feb. http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/dist/ http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/h/hal/hal_0.5.8.1-6.1/changelog The last NetworkManager is 0.6.4 released 13-Jul-2006. It showed up in Debian/unstable on 8-Aug. There have been five bugfix releases, the most recent on 30-Nov. http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/NetworkManager/0.6/ http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/n/network-manager/network-manager_0.6.4-6/changelog Debian is NOT the problem. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
