On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 01:52:16AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Package: linux-2.6 > Severity: wishlist > > As part of my day job, I've submitted an update to the sfc driver > which has been accepted into net-next-2.6 for inclusion in Linux > 2.6.33. I believe this should be included in squeeze because it adds > new hardware support. Since squeeze is intended to use 2.6.32, this > means backporting the driver changes. The new hardware support > required a large amount of refactoring and there is no possibility of > cherry-picking. The changes would have to be applied completely, or > not at all. > > Since it is my day job to support this driver, and it only depends on > one external change in 2.6.33 (which I also contributed) I don't > believe there would be any difficulty in our supporting this for the > lifetime of squeeze. However, I do not believe I should make the > decision to include these changes by myself, due to the potential for > conflict of interest.
driver backports have allways been high on the wishlist, especialy if they add more hardware support. dannf as the stable release manager should have a word on this, but I assume that backports out of linux-next for 2.6.32 are great. we should still keep an eye on kicking as much as possible through the upcoming stable series (this specific case seems not possible). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
