[Bug 521967] Re: support for new atheros wifi chipset

[Rolf Leggewie]

I strongly agree with Bernhard.  This will certainly be leaving lucid in
a bad light.  I believe it's bad enough if users will have to install
the backports-modules package to get things working, which AFAIU is not
in a default install.  But if on top of that they'll have to also add
another repository (I believe -updates isn't enabled by default, either)
you're looking at hordes of frustrated users I'm afraid.

What's holding this back?  As I've said numerous times, I'm happily
using the upstream patch for a while now.  There is also an adapted
version for the 2.6.32 kernel.  I think it needs some minor tweaking to
cleanly apply on top of the Ubuntu patches.  I do have such a version.
I'd happily provide a debdiff, but kernel building in Ubuntu has become
increasingly difficult during the last couple of releases to the point
that I believe only the people doing it everyday can accomplish the task
during a reasonable time span.

I've been trying to compile a Ubuntu kernel from git with the patch
applied.  When I overcome the hurdles, I'll be happy to upload that
kernel to my PPA and publish my git tree somewhere.

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support for new atheros wifi chipset
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/521967
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