Re: Bug#696038: ITP: compat-wireless-3.5.4 -- backported linux wireless drivers

2012-12-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2012-12-16 at 15:10 +1100, Jayen Ashar wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Jayen Ashar > > * Package name: compat-wireless-3.5.4 > Version : 1-snp This has been replaced by compat-drivers . > Upstream Author : Linux Wi

Re: Bug#696038: ITP: compat-wireless-3.5.4 -- backported linux wireless drivers

2012-12-16 Thread Jayen Ashar
Hi kernel team, I intend to package the stable versions of compat-wireless and compat-drivers (when available) as module-assistant packages, starting with compat-wireless 3.5.4. The reason I am using module-assistant (instead of dkms) is so that embedded users of debian can compile & distribute k

Re: Bug#696038: ITP: compat-wireless-3.5.4 -- backported linux wireless drivers

2012-12-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 11:14 +1100, Jayen Ashar wrote: > Hi kernel team, > > I intend to package the stable versions of compat-wireless and > compat-drivers (when available) as module-assistant packages, starting > with compat-wireless 3.5.4. The reason I am using module-assistant > (instead of dk

Re: Bug#696038: ITP: compat-wireless-3.5.4 -- backported linux wireless drivers

2012-12-16 Thread Jayen Ashar
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 11:14 +1100, Jayen Ashar wrote: >> Hi kernel team, >> >> I intend to package the stable versions of compat-wireless and >> compat-drivers (when available) as module-assistant packages, starting >> with compat-wireless 3

Re: Bug#696038: ITP: compat-wireless-3.5.4 -- backported linux wireless drivers

2012-12-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 12:41 +1100, Jayen Ashar wrote: > On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 11:14 +1100, Jayen Ashar wrote: > >> Hi kernel team, > >> > >> I intend to package the stable versions of compat-wireless and > >> compat-drivers (when available

Re: Bug#696038: ITP: compat-wireless-3.5.4 -- backported linux wireless drivers

2012-12-22 Thread Jayen Ashar
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 12:18 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 12:41 +1100, Jayen Ashar wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> > On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 11:14 +1100, Jayen Ashar wrote: >> >> Hi kernel team, >> >> >> >> I intend to package the stable vers

Re: Bug#696038: ITP: compat-wireless-3.5.4 -- backported linux wireless drivers

2012-12-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2012-12-22 at 20:36 +1100, Jayen Ashar wrote: > On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 12:18 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 12:41 +1100, Jayen Ashar wrote: > >> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Ben Hutchings > >> wrote: > >> > On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 11:14 +1100, Jayen Ashar wrote: >

Re: Bug#696038: ITP: compat-wireless-3.5.4 -- backported linux wireless drivers

2013-08-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
So we had a meeting at DebConf about improving hardware support in stable, and seemed to come to a consensus that compat-drivers (formerly compat-wireless) could be added to stable. See . (I forgot about this ITP bug, otherwise I would have

Re: Bug#696038: ITP: compat-wireless-3.5.4 -- backported linux wireless drivers

2013-08-14 Thread Jayen Ashar
What I have now is a set of instructions for building packages with modass[1] which I've used for compat-wireless and peak's canbus driver. I would like to (at some point) learn to use dkms, especially if it'll make my job easier. I also welcome someone [a mentor] to work with on this as my packa