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Re: lenny hal currently does not support debian kernel >= 2.6.27



Vincent Danjean wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
>   I would like to know if #498132/#498478 will be fixed in lenny. This
> hal bug is particular in that it will not be visible in lenny itself.
> But it will prevent hal (and so network-manager) to work with wireless
> if kernel >= 2.6.27 are used. So any lenny users that would like to
> use a newer kernel (for new hardware, ...) will show this bug and will
> not be able to use wireless network-manager connection.
>   An upstream patch is available and this bug is already marked pending.
> But I really do not know enough hal code to tell if this patch is intrusive
> or not.
>   So, please maintainers of hal, look at the upstream patch and discuss
> with release-team about its interest to introduce it in lenny or not.
> 

FWIW, the patches are already added to the pkg-utopia svn:

http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-utopia?op=comp&compare[]=%2F@2423&compare[]=%2F@2424


Cheers,
Michael

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