Re: [libimobiledevice-devel] ipheth

[Paul McEnery <pmcenery@gmail.com>]

2010/4/22 Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>:
> 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.
>

Thanks Ben.

I'll update the ipheth package in the next couple of days. I'll pick
up the discussion about dropping ipheth-dkms on the debian-kernel
list...

Paul.