On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Kunal Gangakhedkar <kunal.gangakhedkar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? Yes, but lbm currently relies on the bleeding edge compat-wireless which is exactly that -- bleeding edge, it may or may not work. The stable compat-wireless releases are based on the latest stable kernel releases and latest rc kernel release so they are deemed to be stable snapshots following the kernel release cycle. Luis -- 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
