Return-path: Received: from mail-ew0-f208.google.com ([209.85.219.208]:33257 "EHLO mail-ew0-f208.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750925AbZJNGCj (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:02:39 -0400 Received: by ewy4 with SMTP id 4so4115546ewy.37 for ; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:02:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Kunal Gangakhedkar To: tim.gardner@canonical.com Subject: Re: Stable compat-wireless 2.6.32-rc4 released Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:31:47 +0530 Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" , "linux-wireless" References: <43e72e890910131542k376a87c5rc30feb6491a06867@mail.gmail.com> <4AD51A7C.9060207@canonical.com> <43e72e890910131750s4d2cdb20o76d721087d9b3aaf@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <43e72e890910131750s4d2cdb20o76d721087d9b3aaf@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Message-Id: <200910141131.47500.kunal.gangakhedkar@gmail.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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? Kunal