r8169 update for Debian 6.0 'squeeze'

2011-05-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
The Debian kernel team regularly backports driver updates to the Linux kernel in stable releases to add support for new hardware. In the current stable release, the Linux kernel is based on longterm series 2.6.32.y. We generally prefer to cherry-pick bug fixes and new hardware support, but there

r8169 update for Debian 6.0 'squeeze'

2011-08-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
The Debian kernel team regularly backports driver updates to the Linux kernel in stable releases to add support for new hardware. In the current stable release, the Linux kernel is based on longterm series 2.6.32.y. We generally prefer to cherry-pick bug fixes and new hardware support, but there

Re: r8169 update for Debian 6.0 'squeeze'

2011-05-20 Thread Luis Henriques
Hi, On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 03:35:09AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > The Debian kernel team regularly backports driver updates to the Linux > kernel in stable releases to add support for new hardware. In the > current stable release, the Linux kernel is based on longterm series > 2.6.32.y. > > W

Re: r8169 update for Debian 6.0 'squeeze'

2011-05-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 07:12:39PM +0100, Luis Henriques wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 03:35:09AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > The Debian kernel team regularly backports driver updates to the Linux > > kernel in stable releases to add support for new hardware. In the > > current sta

Re: r8169 update for Debian 6.0 'squeeze'

2011-05-21 Thread Francois Romieu
Ben Hutchings : [...] > We would appreciate any help you can provide in testing this, and any > advice on changes that should be added or reverted. Sure. What is the deadline ? I can not fetch from the aforementionned URI yet. $ cat .git/config ... [remote "debian"] url = git://git.debi

Re: r8169 update for Debian 6.0 'squeeze'

2011-05-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2011-05-21 at 19:35 +0200, Francois Romieu wrote: > Ben Hutchings : > [...] > > We would appreciate any help you can provide in testing this, and any > > advice on changes that should be added or reverted. > > Sure. What is the deadline ? > > I can not fetch from the aforementionned URI

Re: r8169 update for Debian 6.0 'squeeze'

2011-09-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 03:55 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: [...] > We generally prefer to cherry-pick bug fixes and new hardware support, > but there are so many interrelated changes to r8169 since 2.6.32 that > this seems to be impossible. So I've prepared a backport of r8169 from > Linux 3.0.3, whi

Re: r8169 update for Debian 6.0 'squeeze'

2011-06-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 03:35 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > The Debian kernel team regularly backports driver updates to the Linux > kernel in stable releases to add support for new hardware. In the > current stable release, the Linux kernel is based on longterm series > 2.6.32.y. > > We generally