On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 14:17 +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 01:14:08PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > >> They currently exist in the staging tree, and have been there since 2.6.32 > >> or thereabouts. > > They are truly worthy of the 'crap' label though. > > Sure, but they are much better than nothing. Currently I'm having issues that > the network card is hanging under load (also in 2.6.38)... Do you know if > anybody cares about bug reports should I file them upstream? Which driver, hv_netvsc or the one for the emulated hardware (whatever that is)? Anyway, bug reports against the current upstream version should go upstream. > > It might be worth backporting the current versions to 'squeeze', but I > > don't think it would be a good idea to enable the versions in 2.6.32. > > Mm, well, my question is for sid, I guess. We don't usually expect people to upgrade the kernel to get new hardware support. If these drivers are so useful then they ought to be in squeeze. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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