[Maverick][LBM][SRU][pull-request] UBUNTU: Add compat-wireless-2.6.37

[Tim Gardner]

On 11/09/2010 05:47 PM, Leann Ogasawara wrote:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/673245
>
> SRU Justification:
>
> As part of the linux-backports-modules package, we periodically provide
> an updated compat-wireless stack. linux-backports-modules for Maverick
> already has a pending pull request to add the 2.6.36 compat-wireless
> stack [1]. 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.
>
> 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, even once we do
> enable this, linux-backports-modules is an elective install and a 2.6.37
> compat-wireless update wouldn't have 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 Tim Gardner [1] which adds support for the
> 2.6.36 compat-wireless stack.
>
> Thanks,
> Leann
>
> [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2010-November/013343.html
>
> The following changes since commit 5477e95e2e79c092f08547b28ccd25d27835c954:
>
>    UBUNTU: Added compat-wireless-2.6.36 (2010-11-04 09:20:43 -0700)
>
> are available in the git repository at:
>    git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ogasawara/ubuntu-maverick-lbm.git compat-wireless-2.6.37
>
> Leann Ogasawara (2):
>        UBUNTU: Allow multiple versions of compat-wireless
>        UBUNTU: Add compat-wireless-2.6.37
>
>

applied and pushed

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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com