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Re: [libimobiledevice-devel] ipheth



On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 21:09 +0100, Paul McEnery wrote:
[...]
> 1. Keep the ipheth-utils package and drop ipheth-dkms when ipheth
> makes it into the mainline kernel. Given that mainline inclusion could
> take a while, users (of Debian at least) could start to benefit almost
> immediately since all of the packaging work has already been done.
[...]

The Debian kernel team's policy on backporting drivers is that drivers
must have been *accepted* upstream, not that they must have been part of
an upstream release.  ipheth is a pretty small driver and doesn't appear
to have any major problems, so I would expect it to be accepted on the
second submission, within the next week or so.  At that point we can
immediately add it to our kernel packages.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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