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

[Steve Langasek]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 05:35:53AM -0000, Forest wrote:
> I think this patch might warrant a kernel freeze exception.

No, it doesn't work that way.  An "exception" here would set back the
release by a whole week, due to the time involved in integrating kernel
changes and validating the resulting images.  We aren't going to do that for
a single piece of hardware that's supported on a best effort basis - this is
entirely suitable for fixing in a post-release update.

> Why advertise a netbook distribution whose net connectivity is broken for
> two major releases in a row?

There are many netbooks that aren't affected by this problem.  Some of them
are sold with Ubuntu pre-installed.

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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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