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compat-wireless as a whole aims to always be compiled and used with the
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oldest stable kernel supported by kernel.org. This will be the oldest
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stable kernel on the 2.6. series listed on the kernel.org front page.
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Sometimes we'll go even beyond that.
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Backporting compat-wireless involves backporting some subsystems but
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at times we may want to support compiling only certain drivers on older
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kernels since its easier to backport some subsystems. Such is the case
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with PCI drivers. This directly exists to allow developers enable
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compilation of compat-wireless on older drivers using ./scripts/driver-select
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Upon selection of a driver a patch from this directly will be applied to
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allow further compilation of one driver onto even older kernels.
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