On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 16:19 -0400, Andy Gospodarek wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 03:37:28PM -0400, Jon Masters wrote:

> > I've been testing out the newly Open Sourced Broadcom driver that's in
> > the staging-next tree. Seems reliable, aside from suspend/resume (I
> > posted one patch for handling radio is disabled on init hard crash).
> > 
> > Sure, it'll hopefully land in staging and be in the rawhide kernel in
> > due course, but given that I'm lazy and bought the netbook in question
> > specifically to run rawhide(!), would there be huge objections to a
> > patch sooner that pulled in this driver until it's there officially?
> > Sure, it's experimental, but it's self-contained and this is rawhide.
> > Let me know if this would be just a silly/bad idea.

> It sets a bad precedent.  If it's not ready for upstream it should not
> be ready for rawhide.

Ok. I'll build an RPM based kernel soon with some of my fixes if anyone
wants a "rawhide"-ish kernel with this driver.

Jon.


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