also sprach Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no> [2008.12.09.1758 +0100]:
> > My patch does no "apply", it was made against 2.6.26-11 --
> > Supermicro just sent me their forcedeth.c and I made the patch.
>
> Probably against the unpatched 2.6.26 then? OK, that will explain the
> similarities. But then the real problem must be something else. Sorry
> for the confusion.
No, I made it against 2.6.26-11, for no other reason that it was in
Debian unstable at the time, and I had given up hope for targetting
lenny before. I'd be happy to create a patch against -10 instead.
> > How do I find out when net-use-gso.patch was added? The changelog
> > does not mention it, and I cannot find a repository for the source
> > (there are also no Vcs-* links in the package).
>
> http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-2.6_2.6.26-11/changelog#versionversion2.6.26-2
>
> has a
>
> * net: use software GSO for SG+CSUM capable netdevices (Lennert Buytenhek)
>
> line, which matches the subject in the patch.
Alright. I admit I didn't look that closely. Isn't there a Git repo
for Debian kernels?
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