On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 03:35 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> The Debian kernel team regularly backports driver updates to the Linux
> kernel in stable releases to add support for new hardware. In the
> current stable release, the Linux kernel is based on longterm series
> 2.6.32.y.
>
> We generally prefer to cherry-pick bug fixes and new hardware support,
> but there are so many interrelated changes to r8169 since 2.6.32 that
> this seems to be impossible. So I've prepared a backport of r8169 from
> Linux 2.6.38, which is available in the git branch:
>
> git://git.debian.org/kernel/linux-2.6.git r8169-test
>
> The kernel configuration files we use are at
> <http://kernel.alioth.debian.org/config/2.6.32-33/>.
>
> We would appreciate any help you can provide in testing this, and any
> advice on changes that should be added or reverted.
Full source and binary packages containing these and other backported
drivers can now be found at:
http://people.debian.org/~benh/packages/
So far I have yet received minimal testing feedback, and without that we
will have to defer any updates to Debian 6.0.3 (about another 3 months
away).
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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