Bug#929692: RFP: iwlwifi-dkms -- iwlwifi driver backport in DKMS format
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : iwlwifi-dkms
Version : 7744
Upstream Author : Linus Torvalds <Linus.Torvalds@cs.Helsinki.FI> and others
* URL : https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/iwlwifi/core_release
* License : GPL-2
Programming Lang: C
Description : iwlwifi driver backport in DKMS format
Intel works with periodic releases of the iwlwifi driver that are
tested with a specific combination of components. They are called
LinuxCore releases and are numbered sequentially, e.g. LinuxCore11
is the latest stable release as of May 2015. For users using some
LTS distributions, stable kernel updates might not be enough to
cover new devices and requires manually compiling iwlwifi backport
driver to enable. It would be convenient for those users to have
already packaged iwlwifi backport dkms.
This dkms is currently included in Ubuntu oem installations when
necessary. I've also created, probably duplicate works from
others, a debian port hosted on
https://gitlab.com/vicamo/iwlwifi-dkms and will begin ITP later.
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