On Lu, 02 mar 20, 10:43:57, Pete Batard wrote: > On 2020.03.02 09:56, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Lu, 02 mar 20, 09:49:33, Pete Batard wrote: > > > > > > Well, the situation for networking on Pi4 might change once the Debian > > > maintainers add https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=950578 > > > which is a kernel patch I submitted a few weeks ago. > > > > [...] > > > Who should one contact when they want a Debian-specific kernel patch to be > > > added? > > > > There are much better chances to have it included if the patch is > > already accepted upstream (didn't check if that is already the case). > > It now is in kernel-next, but not in the same form, because kernel 4.x is > missing quite a few thing for a simple backport (platform data struct is > different, missing rgmii-rxid). Which is why a simplified lower-impact of > the driver changes were submitted for Debian's 4.x kernels, as it should be > easier to review and integrate. > > The whole point was to try to have something for 10.3 while the effort to > get it into mainline 5.x was happening... > > > Even so, users can also install the kernel from backports instead... > > My question still stands. How can I get at least a ping from the Debian > maintainers on this patch? > > The patch has been opened for a month now, and there simply hasn't been any > feedback on it. I don't have a problem with "We can't do that right now" or > "We'd rather wait for mainline to do a backport", but my issue is that there > has been no acknowledgement of the patch submission at all... Try sending all of the above to the bug report. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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