On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
Yes, if there is no support in the mainline kernel there should be an effort to make that happen. However, keep in mind that the linux driver project guys working with the kernel.org kernel - thats something which wont make it into CentOS for another 3 years or so.
I am not sure this is an accurate figure because...
I guess one option thats always available is to get the driver into mainline, then backport and manage just that one tree in/for CentOS.
...which is, AFAIK, what the guys working on the distribution which is upstream for CentOS do during the first 4 years of the product lifecycle.
In other words, we should be now in the phase called "Production 1" here: https://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata/ and I'd expect new backported drivers to be added regularly on each kernel update, at least until March 31, 2011
Anyway, welcome back :)