On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 6:46 AM, Paul McEnery <[email protected]> wrote: > 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...
Was was the final decision of merging the small util into one of the other packages and the udev rules into usbmuxd? Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
