On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> wrote:
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> On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 00:13 +0200, Fabrizio Regalli wrote:
>> Hi Nick and thanks for your reply.
>> Sorry for delay.
>> Do you know if is there a debian package of compat-wireless ?
>
> I don't see compat-wireless in the list of Debian packages
> (http://www.us.debian.org/distrib/packages)
>
> The whole point of having compat-wireless it to allow compiling the
> current wireless drivers on older kernels, including kernels provided by
> distributions.  If distributions were to package compat-wireless, it
> would be inevitably behind the current code, simply because no
> distribution would be able to update it daily.

This is true unless your distribution works on source based compile
installs, like Gentoo, which does seem to have a package for it. Or
unless the building of a package for this is automated somehow for
binary-based distributions. I actually think letting distributions
give users somehow the option to run the latest and greatest drivers
for their distribution kernel *right now* is a great feature. This
would hopefully encourage more integration of out-of-tree drivers into
the kernel and also allow users to get the drivers they may need
easily instead of having them hunt down drivers on the net or
compiling their own kernel. I'd even think this might be something
worth-while for the other subsystems as well. But that's just a
thought.

  Luis
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