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Re: Bug#602358: ITP: rtl8192ce-dkms -- Realtek RTL8192CE driver in DKMS format.



On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 10:53:47PM +0100, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote:
> This appears to be scheduled for 2.6.38:
> 	http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg58284.html
> 	Message-ID: <4CCD856E.9010006@lwfinger.net>
> 
> Assuming RTL8192CE support gets merged for 2.6.38, introducing a new 
> package providing dkms support it during a freeze might not be very 
> effective. Once it gets actually merged, a backport to (then current)
> 2.6.37 should be relatively trivial.

The package will be mostly worthless for squeeze+1 if this driver will
indeed be merged upstream.  On the other hand, it is precisely the kind
of package that is most likely to be backported by stable users.

Thus, I think you should care primarily about it working well with 2.6.32.

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