2010/4/22 Ben Hutchings <[email protected]>: > On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 21:40 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 21:09 +0100, Paul McEnery wrote: >> [...] >> > 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. >> [...] >> >> The Debian kernel team's policy on backporting drivers is that drivers >> must have been *accepted* upstream, not that they must have been part of >> an upstream release. ipheth is a pretty small driver and doesn't appear >> to have any major problems, so I would expect it to be accepted on the >> second submission, within the next week or so. At that point we can >> immediately add it to our kernel packages. > > Since ipheth has now been accepted by David Miller, I've just added it > to the repository for Debian kernel packages. >
Thanks Ben. I'll update the ipheth package in the next couple of days. I'll pick up the discussion about dropping ipheth-dkms on the debian-kernel list... Paul. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
