Re: Marvell Discovery II Ethernet driver
On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 11:34, Sven Luther wrote:
> I am a bit sick of this tyranic rule on the powerpc package you are
> taking, not really caring about non pmac packages, and arbitrarily
> taking functionality away without consulting. And please step a bit down
> from this 'i am always right' attitude you are taking.
It's not tyranic, he actually tends to be right ;) I see no hurry in
puttin that driver in, especially since the cleaner one is _already_
available. If it has problems on pegasos, then you'd rather spend your
time fixing it.
> Once it has been tested and works, please but the old patch in in the
> meantime, you don't even know if the above patch works well, nor has it
> been tested on the hardware. What is the problem with having the
> submited patch in the unstable kernel for a few debian revisions while
> the -mm gets testing, and the enhancement we did forward ported to it if
> needed ?
>
> But again, this is not going to work out if you take this heavy handed
> attitude about it.
>
> Friendly,
>
> Sven Luther
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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