On Wednesday 14 Oct 2009 6:20:33 am Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Speaking as a distro, what advantage does the stable wireless backport > > offer for the currently released kernel if we are already consumers of > > stable updates? > > Well if you are a distro stuck on the 2.6.31 kernel the stable > compat-wireless-2.6.32 gets you 2.6.32 wireless bits on 2.6.31 and > that means any features/drivers/large fixes/enhancements that didn't > make it to 2.6.31. > Isn't this the whole purpose of linux-backports-modules in ubuntu as well? Kunal -- 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
