Public bug reported:
We now have the staging tree in Jaunty kernels. (I was a little bit
surprised, so any pointers to the plans, policies or discussion about
this would be awesome). I discovered that my prism2_usb device now was
picked up by the staging driver.
I guess it was not planned that we now are shipping two prism2_usb.ko modules,
one in staging and another in misc/wireless. But the good news is that the
staging module seems to perform better than the old:
- my wlan always come up at boot. Previously I often had USB problems if it was
plugged in, and I would have to unplug and replug it once or many times.
- after heavy usage (dist-upgrades etc) it would previously often get stuck
(like if it was overheated) but now it seems stable, from my testing so far.
YMMV.
So maybe we can delete the old misc/wireless version, which was also a
nightmare to have synced and maintained, at least from my experience
dealing with the kernel team.
I don't know if you have tools to detect other driver conflicts with
staging.
** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: linux-wlan-ng
** Tags added: linux-wlan-ng
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prism2_usb both in staging and misc/wireless
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/325366
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