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Bug#624794: Missing support for various storage and network devices



On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 06:01:09PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Package: linux-2.6
> Version: 2.6.32-33
> Severity: important
> 
> Since Linux 2.6.32 the following updates have been made to storage and
> network drivers that might be used during installation.  The list is
> based on the Kernel Newbies list and may be incomplete.  I have
> excluded CAN and WAN drivers as unlikely to be useful, and SR-IOV VF
> drivers as not necessary (they are a useful optimisation but we
> already have PV networking drivers).  There are still some platform
> drivers in the list that can probably be ignored as not useful in any
> current kernel flavour.
> 
> I don't think we can cover all of these, even after excluding the
> unused platform drivers.  So we'll need to prioritise.

Ben, do you plan further driver backports to oldstable or shall we close
the bug?

Cheers,
        Moritz


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