On Sat, 2010-04-10 at 21:21 +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: > Hello, > > I am aware of the policy stated on > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernelPatchAcceptanceGuidelines > and that this in general means that new features/drivers are rejected. That page is quite outdated, and I should fix it. New drivers can be added so long as they have already been accepted upstream. [...] > I do realize that current policy is that new drivers should be packaged > as dkms source packages, but I believe that this is not a good solution > in this specific case because: We recommend DKMS for out-of-tree drivers, that is drivers that have not been accepted upstream. [...] > Do you think an exception may be possible for this driver? If so, I can > prepare a patch proposal for review. Please do. Also, report this as a bug. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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