On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 01:08:02PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
Alright then, I'll plan on proceeding with this "soon"
(since I'm
taking a long weekend). What about F14? Should I leave it with the
separate package stuff? Go ahead and integrate the compat-wireless
bits into the base kernel package? Or just leave it alone?
"What to do about f14" is something we've been asking a lot lately.
We've already decided we're not rebasing, and we're not going to be
backporting every fix, so the answer for the most part has been
"sorry, try f15/f16", which is a pretty crap response from the users
point of view, but hopefully we'll not fall back into this mistake
of sitting on a year old codebase again.
The -longterm releases are a great idea in theory, but when you think
about what they're actually doing (replicating the workload of an
enterprise kernel, but with a handful people at most), it's pretty
obvious that you can't rely on them to fix everything.
So to answer your question: if you want to do compat-wireless in f14, fine.
If you want to backport wireless.git to it, fine.
At the end of the day, you get the bugs that result from drivers/net/wireless/
so whatever that code ends up being, it's your doing.. :-)
Dave