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Bug#645308: tg3 broken for NetXtreme 5714S in squeeze 6.0.3 installer



On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 15:54 +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> [keeping debian-kernel]
> 
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 08:51:37AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> > Marc Haber wrote:
> > 
> > > Why was a new tg3 introduced in a point release kernel in the first
> > > place?
> > 
> >   * tg3,broadcom: Backport changes up to Linux 2.6.38 (Closes: #627705)
> >     - Add support for BCM5717, BCM5719, BCM57765
> >     - Add support for BCM50610M and BCM5241 PHYs
> >     - Fix support for BCM5755
> 
> Why was this done in a point release? I always thought that Debian
> stable means Debian stable. Other packages are forbidden to introduce
> new functionality into a stable release as well.

Wrong, new hardware support has been allowed for many releases.

> In this case, the change has introduced a (bad!) regression. This must
> not happen.

I didn't see any report from you after the (repeated) calls for testing
the point release.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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