Re: Scheduling of Debian 6.0.2

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 08:10:35PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 20:05 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 07:55:31PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2011-05-21 at 16:55 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > > I'm working on network driver updates to support new hardware, and I
> [...]
> > > How are things going?  In order to ensure that we have time to get the
> > > kernel available on all architectures and then perform a respin of the
> > > installer to pull in the updated kernel, we work on a schedule of having
> > > the kernel uploaded two weeks before the point release - for 6.0.2, that
> > > would mean over the coming weekend.
> >  
> > I've had a couple of positive but incomplete reports, and some code
> > review of tg3 changes from upstream.  I've not committed any changes
> > to these drivers and as things stand I don't think it would be
> > reasonable to do so.
> 
> Thanks for the update.  Were there any other changes you were looking at
> getting in to the point release on top of the 2.6.32-34squeeze1
> currently in p-u?
 
Yes, there are several new drivers and minor changes to other drivers
for hardware enablement.  These are already committed in svn.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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