[Lucid][LBM][SRU][pull-request] UBUNTU: Add compat-wireless-2.6.37
Stefan Bader
stefan.bader at canonical.com
Fri Nov 12 08:25:50 UTC 2010
On 11/10/2010 10:03 PM, Leann Ogasawara wrote:
> SRU Justification:
>
> As part of the linux-backports-modules package, we periodically provide
> an updated compat-wireless stack. linux-backports-modules already has
> pending pull requests to add the 2.6.36 compat-wireless stack to both
> Lucid and Maverick LBM. It's come to our attention that future requests
> for newer versions of the compat-wireless stack will be coming down the
> pipeline. In preparation, add infrastructure to start tracking the
> 2.6.37 compat-wireless stack for Lucid.
>
> Impact:
> There is no impact at the moment as we're just adding the infrastructure
> to enable the 2.6.37 compat-wireless stack. We will wait to actually
> enable and build it until 2.6.37 is final. However, once we do enable
> this, linux-backports-modules is an elective install and a 2.6.37
> compat-wireless update hasn't existed previously, so there should be no
> risk of regression.
>
> Test Case: Flip the bit to build the compat-wireless-2.6.37 stack in the
> linux-backports-modules package and confirm that a 2.6.37
> compat-wireless binary is created.
>
> I'd like to note that I've generated this on top of the previously
> submitted pull request from myself which adds support for the
> 2.6.36 compat-wireless stack to Lucid LBM [1].
>
> Thanks,
> Leann
>
> [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2010-November/013351.html
>
> The following changes since commit f0721f5a15503921a56b05c2d5b22738e09939f8:
>
> UBUNTU: Add compat-wireless-2.6.36 (2010-11-08 11:53:52 -0800)
>
> are available in the git repository at:
> git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ogasawara/ubuntu-lucid-lbm.git compat-wireless-2.6.37
>
> Leann Ogasawara (1):
> UBUNTU: Add compat-wireless-2.6.37
>
>
Can see no harm to add that. ACK
-Stefan
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