On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 02:08:41PM +0200, Julien-externe BLACHE wrote: > b...@decadent.org.uk wrote on 04/04/2011 12:58:24 PM: > > Hi, > > > I expect that at some point we'll want to update the driver to add new > > hardware support, and then we'll pick this up along the way. Until > > then, however, I'm not going to apply it. > > I don't understand your decision; upgrading the whole driver is actually a > lot more likely to introduce regressions, seeing how this driver should be > at the very least 2 different drivers.
It also results in a version that is closer to that tested by the upstream developers (and users of more recent distributions). > I've been working on the igb driver for 5 days, I've read every single > upstream commit affecting igb since before 2.6.32 and I've read the 82575 > manuals from cover to cover. So have you verified that there are no earlier or later changes related to this? > If you want to see for yourself, Intel document ref. 324632-003, rev. 2.1 > 01/2011, pages 392-393 document the MANC register. It is naive to believe anything in a hardware manual without testing it! I assume you have done that, though. Ben. > And that'll be it as far as I'm concerned. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110404121959.gl2...@decadent.org.uk