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

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

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 04:48:25PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 03:29:53PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > I didn't see any report from you after the (repeated) calls for testing
> > the point release.
> 
> Why should I be doing your job? Making sure that features added during
> a stable release don't break existing stuff is a package maintainers'
> job.
 
You seem to have forgotten that Debian is a community distribution,
lacking a hardware compatibility test lab.  I personally don't own
*any* devices supported by the tg3 driver.

I did also request help from the upstream driver developers at
Broadcom, but didn't hear anything back.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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