On 3 April 2010 22:11, "L. Alberto Giménez" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/02/2010 10:09 PM, Paul McEnery wrote: > [...] >> Without wanting to say anything on >> Bradley's behalf, it appeared as if he was in support of the tethering >> driver being implemented in kernel space. That said, and given the >> maturity of ipheth, would it be fair to say that ipheth is the way >> forward in terms of i<device> tethering? > > Hi Paul, > > Reading the thread that you posted, it seems like the original author > agreed to "kind of" support a kernel-space driver. > > And about your question, I *personally* think that it's the way forward. > We have a hardware device that does networking. Si it needs a driver. > And I'm not the best friend of userspace drivers, except for very > specific tasks and to play a little bit (look ma! I implemented a > filesystem with FUSE!). > > >> Where do the udev rules and pairing utility reside? >> >> I see two options here: >> >> 1. Keep the ipheth-utils package and drop ipheth-dkms when ipheth >> makes it into the mainline kernel. Given that mainline inclusion could >> take a while, users (of Debian at least) could start to benefit almost >> immediately since all of the packaging work has already been done. > > I think that this is the one that would fit my view (which may not be > the correct one, but it's my view). Then we can handle everything else > with package dependencies (usbmuxd, libimobiledevice, ...). > > There are still some issues that are pending to fix over the first > driver submission. I've already posted a couple of messages regarding > those issues (I don't have the knowledge to decide about the low-level > aspects of the device or the kernel API itself) and contacted with > Daniel and Diego, so Í think that it's close to get in (linux-next, I > guess) if the list members don't have further comments. > > If you need help packaging (I think that you are the "future" maintainer > for those Debian packages, am I right?), I have some basic experience > with it, so don't feel alone, I can help if required :) >
Hi Alberto. I've left this for a couple of days to see if anyone else has something they would like to add. Thanks for offering your help with regard to packaging assistance. At the moment though, I think I have it under control. Ipheth is currently in the Debian NEW queue, and should be accepted shortly. At this point, I think that we will be moving forward with option 1. Once you have successfully submitted ipheth for mainline inclusion, I will drop the -dkms package and simply maintain a single ipheth-utils package. Regards, Paul. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
