Re: Bug#696038: ITP: compat-wireless-3.5.4 -- backported linux wireless drivers
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> 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.
didn't know about mkdeb. will start looking at dkms (at least for our
internal use). thanks.
>> 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.
Could it be added to wheezy-backports?
> 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.
Are you asking for work on adding it to linux-source, or doing some
testing? I'm not sure I could provide adequate testing on any version
other than the one's my company is running.
Thanks,
Jayen
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