When will we stop shipping WLAN improvements ahead of upstream in released Fedora version?
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Mon Jul 7 16:51:02 UTC 2008
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 12:30:28PM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > -- once F9 (and presumably F8) move to 2.6.26, move the -pending bits
> > to the -wireless.patch and do _not_ create a new -pending.patch for
> > 2.6.28 bits;
> > -- once 2.6.27 is released, drop the -wireless patch and F9/F8 will
> > get no more wireless updates at all;
>
> This sounds reasonable. And to be fair, they will get wireless updates,
> but only when they get other drivers (eg, by going to 2.6.28) or things
> that are small and pushed to -stable upstream
Yeah, this proposal makes a lot of sense to me.
By doing less-often updates to F9 in this manner, you'll also have
more time to continue beating rawhide into shape :-P
Dave
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