Hello, On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 6:52 PM, Andrew Lentvorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ummm, no. That is not Lan's problem. Lan's problem is that Wifi on Linux > is still *broken*. "Change kernel" is *NOT* a valid answer. Ever. > > The fault lies with the Linux Wifi developers who all suffer from > cranio-rectal impaction and can't seem to figure out that "Gee ... maybe we > need a stable Wifi API so that people could actually code to that rather > than having to recompile for every stupid kernel version that changes the > interfaces every time. Of course, if we did that, then when we make stupid > changes people will yell at us. And then we'd have to like ... *test* ... > and, you know, that's, like, *work*." I know I'm probably stirring a hornets nest, but am as curious as hell to know why you think a stable kernel API would have "fixed" Lan's problem? And, yes, I subscribe to the people who actually write the linux kernel opinion that stable kernel API in a FLOSS OS is silly: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/misc/2.6/stable-api-nonsense-2.6.10-rc2.patch m2c Steve -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
