Bug#558721: Please update sfc driver from 2.6.33/net-next-2.6
Package: linux-2.6
Severity: wishlist
As part of my day job, I've submitted an update to the sfc driver
which has been accepted into net-next-2.6 for inclusion in Linux
2.6.33. I believe this should be included in squeeze because it adds
new hardware support. Since squeeze is intended to use 2.6.32, this
means backporting the driver changes. The new hardware support
required a large amount of refactoring and there is no possibility of
cherry-picking. The changes would have to be applied completely, or
not at all.
Since it is my day job to support this driver, and it only depends on
one external change in 2.6.33 (which I also contributed) I don't
believe there would be any difficulty in our supporting this for the
lifetime of squeeze. However, I do not believe I should make the
decision to include these changes by myself, due to the potential for
conflict of interest.
Ben.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-rc8-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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