Bug#558721: Please update sfc driver from 2.6.33/net-next-2.6
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 01:52:16AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Package: linux-2.6
> Severity: wishlist
>
> As part of my day job, I've submitted an update to the sfc driver
> which has been accepted into net-next-2.6 for inclusion in Linux
> 2.6.33. I believe this should be included in squeeze because it adds
> new hardware support. Since squeeze is intended to use 2.6.32, this
> means backporting the driver changes. The new hardware support
> required a large amount of refactoring and there is no possibility of
> cherry-picking. The changes would have to be applied completely, or
> not at all.
>
> Since it is my day job to support this driver, and it only depends on
> one external change in 2.6.33 (which I also contributed) I don't
> believe there would be any difficulty in our supporting this for the
> lifetime of squeeze. However, I do not believe I should make the
> decision to include these changes by myself, due to the potential for
> conflict of interest.
driver backports have allways been high on the wishlist, especialy
if they add more hardware support.
dannf as the stable release manager should have a word on this,
but I assume that backports out of linux-next for 2.6.32 are great.
we should still keep an eye on kicking as much as possible through the
upcoming stable series (this specific case seems not possible).
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