Return-path: Received: from mail.tpi.com ([70.99.223.143]:4178 "EHLO mail.tpi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756697AbZJNP1G (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:27:06 -0400 Message-ID: <4AD5EDA4.6090303@canonical.com> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:26:28 -0600 From: Tim Gardner Reply-To: tim.gardner@canonical.com MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" CC: Kunal Gangakhedkar , linux-wireless Subject: Re: Stable compat-wireless 2.6.32-rc4 released References: <43e72e890910131542k376a87c5rc30feb6491a06867@mail.gmail.com> <4AD51A7C.9060207@canonical.com> <43e72e890910131750s4d2cdb20o76d721087d9b3aaf@mail.gmail.com> <200910141131.47500.kunal.gangakhedkar@gmail.com> <43e72e890910140734j196a06f2y8905d3eb1ba1abc8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <43e72e890910140734j196a06f2y8905d3eb1ba1abc8@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Kunal Gangakhedkar > 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 >> 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 > I am currently in the process of adopting compat-wireless-2.6.32-rc4 in Karmic LBM. Luis - Have I remembered to thank you for all your hard work? rtg -- Tim Gardner tim.gardner@canonical.com