rt2x00 driver support in FC5

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Fri Nov 4 00:28:29 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 16:51 -0600, Michael Favia wrote:
> RT2x00 is aiming for eventual adoption into the kernel but a large
> number of distros have taken initiative and included them in their
> latest releases. A few of those distros:

How is it good enough for distros but not for the mainline kernel?

> Does fedora have any plans to include support for this hardware in FC5?

The general policy is to only ship things which are included in the
upstream kernel to help keep maintenance of the kernel package
"sane".[1]

Jeremy

[1] You'll note that I didn't say keep davej sane -- that has been
written off as impossible ;-)




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