Bug#449272: Alternative (buggy, incomplete) firewire stack shipped instead of the stable one
Alexandre Pereira Nunes wrote:
> 2007/11/4, maximilian attems <max@stro.at <mailto:max@stro.at>>:
>
> On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 02:32:46PM -0200, Alexandre Pereira Nunes
> wrote:
> > Debian choose to ship the alternative firewire stack on recent
> kernels.
> > Firewire maintainers are not recommending this (see
> > http://wiki.linux1394.org/JujuMigration) yet, since this new
> firewire stack
> > is incomplete. For instance, I can't do ethernet over firewire
> with 2.6.22,
> > I have to go back to 2.6.18, which gives me other kind of trouble.
>
> the switch has been made some time ago.
> you are the *first* to holler due to ethernet over firewire!
>
Err. No. Not the first.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2007/10/msg00414.html
And I'll note that no one replied. Is the Debian-kernel list not the
right place to discuss the... Debian Kernel?
> please report bug upstream on bugzilla.kernel.org
> <http://bugzilla.kernel.org> and let us know your
> bug nr, see bottom of page
> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernelReportingBugs
>
>
>
> What are you talking about?
<snip>
I agree with Alexandre. Not a kernel bug; Juju is a DEVELOPMENT UNSTABLE
stack. (Though I see from the kernel build that even further patches
have been applied to the current SVN so maybe thats not so broken,
however that is NOT in unstable/testing...).
JEB
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