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Staging drivers outStaging drivers outPosted Oct 29, 2009 13:49 UTC (Thu) by johill (subscriber, #25196)In reply to: Staging drivers out by nix Parent article: Staging drivers out
If you can even run the latest kernel on that machine ...
Also, for the wireless drivers in question, you have to find at least _two_ machines for it to make sense. And then I suspect not all drivers support ad-hoc mode or whatever it was at the time, so maybe you even have to find an AP for them?
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Staging drivers out Posted Oct 30, 2009 0:16 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link] you have to find at least _two_ machines for it to make sense. ... I don't think the concern is that someone will have a wireless card in a closet for ten years and then decide to build a system with it. It's that someone has a system running continuously for ten years using that wireless card, which means he also has other machines and APs as required, and then suddenly wants to switch to a new Linux kernel to add a feature. It would be nice if he didn't have to choose between the new kernel-provided feature and the old wireless card (and probably a dozen other old components that are tied to it). If you can even run the latest kernel on that machine ... That's exactly the question -- whether new Linux will be compatible with old machines.
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