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Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2022 20:03:58 -0500 From: Slade Watkins <slade@...dewatkins.com> To: Larry Finger <larry.finger@...inger.net> Cc: Wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: rtw89 driver On Thu, Feb 3, 2022 at 7:57 PM Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net> wrote: > > If for some reason, you do not like my version of the kernel code in the GitHub > repo that you reference, then you could use the Backports Project. > > Backporting a driver into one of the stable trees is not a sanctioned activity. > Stable kernels only get fixes for bugs, not new features such as a complete driver. > > At least one distro packages rtw89 as kernel modules the same as my GitHub repo. > That distro is openSUSE, which gets its source from that very repo. There may be > others that provide similar packages. Alright thanks for the info, Larry! I really appreciate it :-) All the best, Slade
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