Bug#433568: Bug #433568 add vlan support

[Aron Xu <happyaron.xu@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 11:47 PM, Gaudenz Steinlin <gaudenz@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Aron
>
> Aron Xu <happyaron.xu@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I'm sending a reminder on this issue, it would be best if d-i can
>> support VLAN using expert mode of installation, configuring VLAN using
>> iproute2 during installation is much more annoying comparing to
>> configure it within d-i.
>
> A reminder is nice and if you are luck might get things started, but
> as you probably know, d-i is free software. Pachtes are most welcome.
> Everyone is free to contribute and I don't know of any technically sound
> contribution to d-i that has been turned down.
>

Thanks, I know that, and I have been a Debian contributor for quite
some time, :-)

> The code is at git.debian.org, the components you probably need to
> modify are netcfg and busybox (to enable VLAN support).
>

IIRC busybox-udeb has enabled VLAN support, the only thing left is
netcfg. But to be honest I'm not familiar with those stuff...

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Regards,
Aron Xu