Re: 4g4g-Patch for kernel 2.6.8
On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 13:35 +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 12:51:23PM +0200, Kai Militzer wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > do you think it would be possible to take the 4g4g-Patch from the
> > feodora/red hat kernel into the debian 2.6.8 kernel?
>
> As the 2.6.8 kernel is the stable/sarge kernel, this is highly unlikely, but
> there may be a chance for the etch/sid kernels (the upcoming 2.6.14 probably),
> and there will be backports of those to sarge.
>
> So, what is this patch good for, whatever is a 4g4g, and why has it not made
> it upstream ?
>
> Also, could you get either the patch itself or an url to it, and file a
> propoer bug report against the linux-2.6 package ?
To expand on Sven's reply, note that our policy is to not include
patches that are not upstream (or very important and believed to be
going upstream).
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernelPatchAcceptanceGuidelines
If this patch has been accepted upstream, then it is a candidate for us
to backport to our current linux-2.6 packages. However, its probably
only worthwhile to file a bug requesting a backport when we've selected
a kernel version for our next release - when we're not close to release,
these guys tend to move to new upstream kernels pretty quickly.
If this patch has not been accepted upstream, there's not much point in
filing a bug with Debian - better to work with upstream directly.
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