rawhide report: 20060103 changes

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 10:02 +0100, dragoran wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 03:13 -0500, Build System wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>kernel-2.6.14-1.1808_FC5
> >>------------------------
> >>* Mon Jan 02 2006 David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at redhat.com>
> >>- Merge experimental Broadcom wireless driver
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >
> >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.
> >
> >  
> >
> but the driver needs some testing 

no argument there 

> and having it in rawhide would help it.
> native wlan drivers are rare and having more off them won't hurt (no 
> ndiswrapper etc.) ;)

they're not THAT rare; there's drivers as well for the atheros chips,
for the rx chips etc etc.  I'm the first to say that that work needs
applauding and support. But why do only one and not all?