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Re: ancient ieee80211/ipw2200 drivers in recent kernel (2.6.14)



On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 12:49:28PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 November 2005 11:44, Maximilian Attems wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 06:22:17PM +0900, Horms wrote:
> > > Ok, so I should just go ahead and put my patch into the 2.6.14 branch?
> > > Or should we leave it as 2.6.15 probably isn't that far away... maybe
> >
> > depends if d-i will base itself on 2.6.14 for next beta
> > than it's maybe nicer to have those ancient than nothing.
> 
> We will use whatever is in testing at the time of the release. So it 
> depends very much on when 2.6.15 will be uploaded (and even if 2.6.14 
> will have moved to testing before then).
> 
> Are there major changes from .14 to .15? If not, we should be able to 
> change over to .15 relatively fast.

better ntfs support, up2date ipw2XXX, vfs support "shared subtree",
fbcon console rotation + usual bunch of fixes and driver upgrades.
no acpi change.
 
> My preliminary target for d-i beta2 is 2nd half of January. We'll need at 
> least .14 in testing for the release.

.15 should come around christmas,
so it should be early enough for all archs to focus on.

--
maks




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