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  • Existing Linux Bluetooth drivers
  • Firmware for 802.11 devices
    • Linux open firmware
  • Documentation move
    • Administration of releases
    • Compat wireless old 2.6.22 bug
    • compat-wireless-old
    • Hacking compat-wireless
      • Brainstorming for enable Kconfig on compat-wireless
    • New project change
      • Maintaining stable compat-wireles releases
  • Certified by Wi-Fi Alliance
  • Wireless router platforms
  • Information for Users
  • Documentation move

Documentation move#

  • Administration of releases
    • compat-wireless bleeding edge releases
      • backups of compat-wireless releases
    • Stable releases
      • Making new releases
  • Compat wireless old 2.6.22 bug
  • compat-wireless-old
    • Requirements
    • Release notes
    • Where to download
    • Building and installing
    • Drivers
    • Known issues
    • Building for external kernels
    • Bugs
    • How about compatibility work for kernels older than 2.6.21 ?
    • ChangeLog
      • compat-wireless-old ChangeLog
    • License
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      • Hacking on compat-wireless-2.6-old
    • TODO
    • Patches for compatibility work
    • Checking out compat-wireless-2.6-old.git tree
  • Hacking compat-wireless
    • Brainstorming for enable Kconfig on compat-wireless
      • Step 1
      • Step 2
      • Step 3
      • Step 4
      • Step 5
      • Step 6
      • Step 7
    • Git trees you will need
      • Linux next
      • compat.git
        • compat.git modules
          • compat
          • compat_firmware_class
      • compat-wireless.git
        • Adding new drivers
    • Generating stable releases
    • Sending patches
    • TODO
    • Administrative
  • New project change
    • Maintaining stable compat-wireles releases
      • Recap on compat-wireless
      • compat-wireless branches
      • A new stable release - the hard way
      • A new stable release - the easy way
      • When do updates get made

The project compat-wireless has been renamed to compat-drivers, and later to backports, and its documentation has been moved to:

  • https://backports.wiki.kernel.org

The code is in Releases page:

  • linux-stable backports releases

  • linux-next backports releases

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