On Wednesday 14 Oct 2009 8:04:32 pm Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > 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 Got that - thanks for the explanation :) 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
