[Debian-eeepc-devel] Bug#522078: Bug#522078: Bug#522078: rt2860-source: Fails to build for Linux 2.6.29

Axel Beckert abe at deuxchevaux.org
Tue Mar 31 22:36:15 UTC 2009


Hi,

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 02:30:01PM -0700, Daniel Moerner wrote:
> > rt2860 module is built into 2.6.29 so you don't actually need to build
> > it by yourself :)
> >
> > Since the driver went into the mainline kernel, I was thinking when
> > would be appropriate time to remove it from unstable. Maybe when
> > linux-image-2.6.29-* migrates to testing?
> 
> Well from the looks of it it won't last too long in the mainline
> kernel in Debian:
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=521553

Not in the kernel package, but it will probably move quite soon to the
firmware-linux package which contains non-free firmware shipped with
the Linux kernel: http://packages.debian.org/sid/firmware-linux

		Regards, Axel
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