i've just encountered the exact same thing as joey, this time with a dreamplug. kernel is 2.6.32, it's clearly massively inconvenient, not to mention risky, to upgrade embedded device kernels, yet, like joey, i need to be able to use a little bit more than stable backports. so the suggestion "go talk to the debian arm maintainers" really doesn't cut it, because even if they "solved" the problem by "fixing" the kernel it would still not actually result in anyone making the immediate decision to upgrade the kernel on their embedded devices.
so i really don't consider it to be good practice to have such a fundamental package upgraded and it to result - with absolutely no warning - in an unuseable system. is the severity on this bugreport at "critical" level already? l. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org