Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Alistair John Strachan <> | | Subject | Re: New Linux Development Model | | Date | Thu, 10 Nov 2005 19:29:37 +0000 |
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On Thursday 10 November 2005 15:10, Mark Lord wrote: [snip] > Sure, us kernel folk can cope with all of that (in theory, > though in practice I'm still stuck with 2.6.13 because I haven't > yet gotten working ipw2200 with 2.6.14, with *either* driver).
I'm probably asking a silly question here, but presumably you've grabbed ieee80211 1.1.6 and ipw2200 1.0.8 from their respective websites, compiled them, installed them (whilst running 2.6.14) and the resulting driver does not work?
> But things just got WAY more complicated for most users of ipw2200. > Sure, they can ignore us and just continue to run their old vendor > kernels. But this means they don't get up-to-date kernels with > bug fixes and security fixes. And more importantly to LKML, > we've now just cut off a potentially large crowd of kernel-testers. > > Ugh. Ugly.
I completely agree with this assessment, I was merely defending the "linux development process" which I do not believe to be at fault here.
-- Cheers, Alistair.
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