On Fri, 2012-01-27 at 17:20 -0430, Luis Alejandro Martínez Faneyth wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering what was the package (or packages) where linux kernel > modules that are not shipped with it (i.e. not included in the > linux-image package) are packaged.
Various packages for different projects. > For example, Realtek's rtl8192se module as pointed on the wiki [1], was > inserted on Linux 3.0.0~rc1-1~experimental.1. Previous kernel versions > don't have support for it, so you either install a new kernel or > compile/package it for the current kernel. > > My question: is there any team packaging these kernel modules that are > not inserted on previous kernels but released in newer ones? Are you asking whether this module can be provided in stable? If so, report a bug against src:linux-2.6 version 2.6.32-41 (the current version in stable-proposed-updates) requesting a backport of this driver. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Horngren's Observation: Among economists, the real world is often a special case.
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