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