Re: When will we stop shipping WLAN improvements ahead of upstream in released Fedora version?

2008-08-06 Thread John W. Linville
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 05:05:33PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: John W. Linville wrote: I still think that for continuity's sake f8 and f9 should continue to get wireless fixes from 2.6.27. Those should only be specific bug fixes (although I suppose there is still time for a new driver), so

Re: When will we stop shipping WLAN improvements ahead of upstream in released Fedora version?

2008-08-05 Thread Chuck Ebbert
John W. Linville wrote: I still think that for continuity's sake f8 and f9 should continue to get wireless fixes from 2.6.27. Those should only be specific bug fixes (although I suppose there is still time for a new driver), so hopefully the nattering nabobs won't be opposed to continuing with

Re: When will we stop shipping WLAN improvements ahead of upstream in released Fedora version?

2008-08-05 Thread Kyle McMartin
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 05:05:33PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: John W. Linville wrote: I still think that for continuity's sake f8 and f9 should continue to get wireless fixes from 2.6.27. Those should only be specific bug fixes (although I suppose there is still time for a new driver), so

Re: When will we stop shipping WLAN improvements ahead of upstream in released Fedora version?

2008-07-31 Thread John W. Linville
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 11:37:10AM -0400, John W. Linville wrote: So, here is what I propose: -- continue the current practice until 2.6.26 is released and the 2.6.27 merge window closes; -- after that, continue the current practice for updating rawhide; but, -- once F9 (and presumably

Re: When will we stop shipping WLAN improvements ahead of upstream in released Fedora version?

2008-07-07 Thread John W. Linville
On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 02:56:30PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: John (CCed), I really appreciate your work in the wireless area and would like to use the opportunity to say thanks for all you work, as support for WLAN hardware in the Linux kernel improved a lot in the upstream kernel

When will we stop shipping WLAN improvements ahead of upstream in released Fedora version?

2008-07-05 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
Hi all John (CCed), I really appreciate your work in the wireless area and would like to use the opportunity to say thanks for all you work, as support for WLAN hardware in the Linux kernel improved a lot in the upstream kernel and Fedora thx to your (and other linux wireless developers)

Re: When will we stop shipping WLAN improvements ahead of upstream in released Fedora version?

2008-07-05 Thread drago01
On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Thorsten Leemhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - a karama of +3 in bodhi seems not enough for a auto-move from testing to stable (or even worse: straight to stable if enough people tested the kernel and gave their +1 after the update got filed in bodhi but *before*

Re: When will we stop shipping WLAN improvements ahead of upstream in released Fedora version?

2008-07-05 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 05.07.2008 15:54, drago01 wrote: On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Thorsten Leemhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - a karama of +3 in bodhi seems not enough for a auto-move from testing to stable (or even worse: straight to stable if enough people tested the kernel and gave their +1 after the

Re: When will we stop shipping WLAN improvements ahead of upstream in released Fedora version?

2008-07-05 Thread drago01
On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Thorsten Leemhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 05.07.2008 15:54, drago01 wrote: On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Thorsten Leemhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - a karama of +3 in bodhi seems not enough for a auto-move from testing to stable (or even worse:

Re: When will we stop shipping WLAN improvements ahead of upstream in released Fedora version?

2008-07-05 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 05.07.2008 17:22, drago01 wrote: On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Thorsten Leemhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 05.07.2008 15:54, drago01 wrote: On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Thorsten Leemhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - a karama of +3 in bodhi seems not enough for a auto-move from