Bug#349164: Bug#349165: O: ieee80211 -- Source for the 802.11 (wireless) network stack for Linux

[Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>]

On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 08:01:57PM +0100, Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Mike Hommey wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 01:36:20PM +0100, Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org> wrote:
> > > Shouldn't it then be simply removed from unstable? (likewise with ipw2200)
> > 
> > Well, some people prefer using the upstream ones instead of the vanilla
> > kernel ones, because there are still issues with the version in vanilla
> > kernel.
> 
> Yes, but that still won't work then as you say those don't build with
> newer kernels, didn't you?

I found no clean solution for doing that, but there are workarounds to
make it work, but that implies overwriting other packages' files. If the
adopting maintainer wants to provide scripts or howtos to go this
not-clean-but-only way, that's fine by me.

> > Some other people don't want to upgrade kernel, and for them it's the
> > only solution to get these drivers. For these people, the current
> > drivers are better than nothing. Removing them would not be nice to
> > these people.
> 
> Hmm. That's a point.

But a question remains : are they numerous ?

Mike