Re: rawhide report: 20060103 changes

[dragoran <dragoran feuerpokemon de>]

Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 10:02 +0100, dragoran wrote:
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> > Arjan van de Ven wrote:
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> > > 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 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 
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> no argument there 
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> > 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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> 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?
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I would also prefer to have all of them...