* Package name    : iwlwifi-dkms
  Version         : 7744
  Upstream Author : Linus Torvalds <Linus.Torvalds@cs.Helsinki.FI> and others
* URL             : https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/iwlwifi/core_release
* License         : GPL-2
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : iwlwifi driver backport in DKMS format

Intel works with periodic releases of the iwlwifi driver that are
tested with a specific combination of components. They are called
LinuxCore releases and are numbered sequentially, e.g. LinuxCore11
is the latest stable release as of May 2015. For users using some
LTS distributions, stable kernel updates might not be enough to
cover new devices and requires manually compiling iwlwifi backport
driver to enable. It would be convenient for those users to have
already packaged iwlwifi backport dkms.

This dkms is currently included in Ubuntu oem installations when
necessary. I've also created, probably duplicate works from
others, a debian port hosted on
https://gitlab.com/vicamo/iwlwifi-dkms and will begin ITP later.

Which git tree and branch do you take it from? If it is
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/iwlwifi/backport-iwlwifi.git
then
the package name is better called backport-iwlwifi-dkms or
iwlwifi-backport-dkms to make the package name clear in reflecting what it
does.

Thanks,
Anthony

Renamed source/binary package names to backport-iwlwifi-dkms in my
gitlab fork: https://gitlab.com/vicamo/backport-iwlwifi-dkms

Thank you.

retitle 929692 ITP: iwlwifi-dkms -- iwlwifi driver backport in DKMS format
owner 929692 !
thanks

I would like to package this myself.

You-Sheng Yang

retitle 929692 ITP: backport-iwlwifi-dkms -- iwlwifi driver backport in
DKMS format
thanks

retitle 929692 ITP: backport-iwlwifi-dkms -- iwlwifi driver backport in DKMS format
thanks