Re: Bug#451367: installation-reports: Does not allow ethernet over firewire
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 11:50:58AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
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> The device was listed in d-i because people were using it. This thread is
> here because they can no longer do so. It's rather rude of you to declare
> that it's ok for the kernel team to "fix" usability issues in the installer
> by removing functionality from the kernel.
as i mentioned on the mail announcing the switch eth1394 might go
missing for a while, if it doesn't reappear soon enough for lenny,
the m-i-t blacklisting of the old stack seems an easy way to get it back.
and yes i have seen quite a lot of people stumble on that dialogue.
> I understand the technical arguments regarding the replacement of the stack,
> and have no informed position on this bigger issue (though it seems that
> plenty of people have been using the previous stack without complaint?), but
> that doesn't make it ok that functionality has been dropped, whether or not
> you happen to like that functionality.
plenty of people have left *lots* of bug reports on ieee1394.
it is trivialy easy to crash any box as user with it.
it's buggyness was the reason for rh to sponsor the rewrite.
also it's sysfs device name support is quite lacking afair.
--
maks
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