Re: [gentoo-dev] *** 2004.3 release snapshot reminder ***

[Ned Ludd]

On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 13:17, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 11:24:14AM -0400, Ned Ludd wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 07:35, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> > > I just wanted to remind everyone that the deadline for something making
> > > it into 2004.3 is Friday, since we will be running our snapshot on the
> > > 16th.  This means any package that we want on the LiveCD needs to be
> > > marked *STABLE* for any arch that wants the package.
> > >
> >
> > > latexer:  Any chance we'll have madwifi-* ready?
> >
> > probably not. madwifi is a work in progress and results very depending
> > on the kernel version. >=2.6.8 is a no go.
>
> Is this a problem with the kernel, or in the madwifi package?

Both but lets say the madwifi needs work for >2.6.8 and then only on
some >2.6.8. latexer gave me some ideas what needed to be done there for
>2.6.8 and I sent him a partial ebuild patch. We know that the -mm
series is not an option with some read-only assignment to a struct which
never happenes with other series. Which ever patch that causes that from
the -mm seems to have stunk into a kernel or two other. I don't know
which patch or the root cause of what's up with that struct. (method and
a few others might have some insight)

But overall madwifi-driver is just not a stable project yet and probably
should not be put in stable.
Granted it would make life easier on a lot of us (mine atleast) if it
was in stable but we would have to understand that it's still an
unstable product.

>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
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Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
Gentoo (hardened,security,infrastructure,embedded,toolchain) Developer