RE: Backported drivers
Please read this as "I have decided against pushing new hardware support to stable branch"
Thanks,
Sarvesh
-----Original Message-----
From: Bandi,Sarveshwar [mailto:Sarveshwar.Bandi@Emulex.Com]
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2013 3:44 PM
To: Ben Hutchings
Cc: debian-kernel@lists.debian.org
Subject: RE: Backported drivers
Ben,
I have decided pushing new hardware support to stable branch. Given the dependencies of the patches on intermediate wants I don’t want to take the risk of regressing. If there are any other criticial patches I will certainly push them into stable.
As for 3.9, while new hardware support was available certain critical patches in relation to that went in after 3.9 cut was made. I will open bug again 3.9.5-1 and submit these patches
Thanks,
Sarvesh
-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Hutchings [mailto:ben@decadent.org.uk]
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 7:26 AM
To: Bandi,Sarveshwar
Cc: debian-kernel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Backported drivers
On Mon, 2013-06-10 at 07:27 +0000, Bandi,Sarveshwar wrote:
> Ben,
> I would like to backport patches into 3.9 (support for new hardware
> and critical bugs). Can I do it now? Or when is the right time to do
> it?
Critical bug fixes should be submitted for inclusion in kernel.org stable branches. And backporting new hardware support to unstable outside of a freeze period is generally unnecessary, as each new upstream release will quickly be uploaded there.
If you really want to provide a tested backport from net-next to 3.9 then I'm not about to refuse your patches. But it would help many more Debian users if you would concentrate on backporting to our stable release.
Ben.
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