On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 11:14 +1100, Jayen Ashar wrote: > 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. This is not a reason to avoid DKMS, as you can use 'dkms mkdeb' to build a package for installation elsewhere. > 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. Since wheezy is now frozen, this cannot be added to wheezy and therefore cannot be added to squeeze-backports either. So this will not be a very effective way to help other squeeze users. The official kernel package (linux-2.6/linux source package) does get stable updates to extend hardware support, but not as many as I would like. I would really like to see compat-drivers integrated into the linux source package so users don't need to look for extra package or a special installer. But we will need to ensure that there is adequate regression testing whenever we update compat-drivers in stable. Would you be interesting in working on this? It would help many more users than a separate package. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Life is like a sewer: what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.
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