How to get WPA-Support with NetworkManager?

[Dan Williams]

On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 13:56 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 01:46:42PM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
>  > On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 10:38 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
>  > > On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 13:33 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
>  > > > 
>  > > > That is correct, but it only requires one small non-invasive driver
>  > > > patch to make WPA available.  This patch should make FC5 final, so
>  > > > you'll be fine once FC5 comes out.
>  > > 
>  > > No chance of getting this patch in before Test3 so that a wider range of
>  > > users will test it?
>  > 
>  > Well, it first goes to wireless-2.6 (linville), then pulled to
>  > netdev-2.6 (jgarzik), then pulled to torvalds-2.6 (linus) before davej
>  > pulls it down for the Fedora Kernel.  That's at least a week or so,
>  > maybe more.  Although the patch is quite trivial and doesn't affect
>  > operation in any way, so maybe davej would accept it for Fedora kernels
>  > before it hits Linus' tree.
> 
> We need to lower the latency of getting patches like this into the Fedora kernel.
> I'm toying with the idea of pulling in some of the -git trees directly.
> If it's in a maintainers -git tree, chances are it's going to end up upstream
> really soon, so I don't think this is diverging from our 'upstream first' policy,
> but more.. taking a short-cut.

Yeah, I expect to send patches like this off to netdev-2.6/wireless-2.6
first of course (which I've just done).  What's the usual lag time
between when something is in netdev and then shows up in the upstream
kernels?  I think its about 1 - 2 weeks, depending.  Does that make the
FC5 window?

Dan