Re: Kernel vmsplice security update
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:18:32AM +0100, Laurent Bonnaud wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 22:06 +0000, Norbert Tretkowski wrote:
>
> > I'm a bit worried about that, especially because the Broadcom NetXtremeII
> > driver is required for some recent Dell systems, e.g. the PowerEdge 1950.
>
> Indeed. We have such servers and we are stuck with 2.6.22 kernels. If
> a kind backporter could backport kernel 2.6.24 with the bnx2 module,
> this would be great.
I believe feature patches are somewhat out of scope for the backports
archive, no? Better to get the modules into packages in non-free, if
that's possible (I haven't been following the nonfree firmware debate
recently).
Certainly I would be worried about packages with non-free firmware
(as decreed by the Debian project) hitting backports main.
Dominic.
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