rawhide report: 20060103 changes

dragoran dragoran at feuerpokemon.de
Tue Jan 3 09:02:18 UTC 2006


Arjan van de Ven wrote:

>On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 03:13 -0500, Build System wrote:
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>>kernel-2.6.14-1.1808_FC5
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>>* Mon Jan 02 2006 David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at redhat.com>
>>- Merge experimental Broadcom wireless driver
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>I thought the fedora kernel policy was "upstream first" ....
>I think there's about a dozen other drivers that warrant the same
>treatment as this broadcom one... at least 4 of which are wireless
>drivers as well for which the hardware is quite popular.
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but the driver needs some testing and having it in rawhide would help it.
native wlan drivers are rare and having more off them won't hurt (no 
ndiswrapper etc.) ;)




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