"Lennart Sorensen" <lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> writes: > On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 05:21:30PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> Lennart Sorensen <lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> (2014-01-06): >> > Debian stable means not changing things in general, so adding new >> > drivers is not something that is done. >> >> Sorry, that's wrong. >> >> The linux kernel is regularly updated in stable to add support for >> new(er) hardware. > > Well if 3.2.x updates upstream add new drivers, then sure, but I don't > recall ever seeing debian backport drivers to a stable release kernel.
Look again. For example: zgrep backport /usr/share/doc/linux-image-*/changelog.Debian.gz My experience is that the Debian kernel team is more than happy to accept backported drivers. But someone has to do the job. Bjørn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
