On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Dan McGee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Tobias Powalowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am Montag, 24. März 2008 schrieb Dan McGee: > > > > > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Tobias Powalowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > kernel bump release for both arches in > > > > testing, please signoff > > > > added atheros l2 network adapter support (used in eee pcs) > > > > > > What was wrong with AUR for this? Why on earth do we keep adding MORE > > > PATCHES!? > > more patches are so cool, you know ;) > > i hope one day you get new hardware and you are not able to get your > network > > working, then i want to hear you scream. > > I have an Eee, I managed to pull off an FTP install just fine. > > I compiled the driver by hand, just as has always been the case for > out-of-tree driver with Arch if there is not already a separate > package for it. > > I did this 22 months ago for my zd1211 wireless stick before it was in > the mainline kernel, and I had *0 days of desktop linux experience* at > that time (on my own machine). 0 days. And now we bend over backwards > for someone needing a driver? Ugh. I thought April fools and the > rename to Newb Linux wasn't for another week.
I just want to say that I'm frustrated, so sorry for unleashing here- I mean what I say, but am really not trying to start some back and forth war that we aren't going to be able to make a decision on. However: 1) Did we even have a bug report for adding atl2? I saw a forum thread that suggested building it from the AUR, which seemed like a valid solution. 2) atl2 is never going to make it upstream- I thought this was the criteria for adding a patch. Instead, an atlx driver is going to take the place of atl1/atl2. When did we change our patch inclusion criteria? 3) You tell me in one thread that libarchive is too late, and two minutes later I see there is a new kernel that was probably made for the ISO. This confuses me. The communication and transparency here has had a HUGE breakdown. -Dan
