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

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

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 03:07:44PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> > On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 06:01:09PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> 
> >> 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?
> 
> Unless some of these backports are known to fix data loss or
> something, I think it makes sense to close.

Right, I don't ever expect to add any new hardware support to
oldstable.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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