Bug#890034: comment on 890034

[Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>]

Hi Phil,

On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 07:18:14PM +0000, Phil Lavin wrote:
> Thanks for updating the issue, Salvatore. The motivation behind
> raising the bug was to ask that the driver be backported to 4.9.
> Dell's Gen 14 hardware with Perc H740P has only been around a few
> months and, given that Debian 10 is a fair way away from being
> released, I suspect that there will be a raft of users wishing to
> install Debian on this hardware in the not so distant future who
> will be unable to do so without manually compiling and loading the
> driver from Dell into both the installer and the installed OS.
> 
> If a bug isn't the right way to request a backport, can you advise
> how it should be done?

Filling a bug is absolutely fine, actually. My updating on the bug was
to mark it as fixed where the support for the respective support for
H740P was added. I have not looked at which patches would be needed
and how much involving they are (the bug you referenced at least seem
to indicate that trying to do so for an older 4.4 would require large
backport seris involving refactoring of the code)

Hope this clarifies my updates to the bug!

Regards,
Salvatore