Bug#279174: Adding VIA8231 support for parallel port driver
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 12:59:00PM +0900, Horms wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 12:00:53PM +0300, Pavel Fedin wrote:
> > Package: kernel-source-2.6.8
> > Tags: patch
> >
> > This is a patch which adds VIA8231 southbridge support to version 2.6.8 of the kernel.
>
> Thanks, what is the status of this upstream?
> New features generally aren't added to the Debian Kernel
> unless they have been accepted upstream.
After some converstasion with Sven Luther on #debian-kernel
it seems that this patch (or a slightly modified version)
has been merged upstream. I don't see any problem with merging
it into Debian accordingly. Sven Luther and/or I will work on making this so.
--
Horms
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