Re: Bug#696038: ITP: compat-wireless-3.5.4 -- backported linux wireless drivers
Hi kernel team,
I intend to package the stable versions of compat-wireless and
compat-drivers (when available) as module-assistant packages, starting
with compat-wireless 3.5.4. The reason I am using module-assistant
(instead of dkms) is so that embedded users of debian can compile &
distribute kernel module packages without needing a compiler on the
embedded device. I am starting with 3.5.4 because I have already
packaged it for my company and have tested it internally with the
squeeze kernel.
Thanks,
Jayen
On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-12-16 at 15:10 +1100, Jayen Ashar wrote:
>> Package: wnpp
>> Severity: wishlist
>> Owner: Jayen Ashar <j.ashar@marathon-targets.com>
>>
>> * Package name : compat-wireless-3.5.4
>> Version : 1-snp
>
> This has been replaced by compat-drivers
> <https://backports.wiki.kernel.org/>.
>
>> Upstream Author : Linux Wireless team <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
>> * URL : http://linuxwireless.org/
>> * License : This work is a subset of the Linux kernel as such we keep the kernel's Copyright practice. Some files have their own copyright and in those cases the license is mentioned in the file. All additional work made to building this package is licensed under the GPLv2.
>> Programming Lang: C
>> Description : backported linux wireless drivers
>>
>> These packages contain the source code of the wireless drivers from a newer
>> linux kernel. These drivers have been backported to be compatible with
>> every kernel >= 2.6.26. These packages allow building of binary packages
>> through the use of module-assistant.
>
> Please discuss this with the kernel team.
>
> Ben.
>
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> Ben Hutchings
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