On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 21:40 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > 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. Since ipheth has now been accepted by David Miller, I've just added it to the repository for Debian kernel packages. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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