[Bug 404626] Re: Turning wifi "off" using Fn+F2 on Eee PC with Ralink rt2860 results in kernel panic (rfkill)

[sergio.callegari]

Would it be possible to devise a different process to deal with issues
like these (namely bugs in drivers that are kernel modules) in the
future?

Due to the need of guaranteeing the stability of the kernel even fixes
for relatively simple bugs involving drivers like this one take months,
with the result that people skip some distribution releases altogether.

Wouldn't it be possible and maybe easier in the future to deal with
problems like this one by shipping out special packages containing only
the source code of the fixed driver and using dkms to compile themselves
and overriding the bugged modules?

In this way, only the people affected by the bug would install the
fixing package, which could then be distributed with much less paranoia
than a full kernel.

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Turning wifi "off" using Fn+F2 on Eee PC with Ralink rt2860 results in kernel panic (rfkill)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/404626
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