Package: linux-2.6 Severity: wishlist As part of my day job, I've submitted an update to the sfc driver which has been accepted into net-next-2.6 for inclusion in Linux 2.6.33. I believe this should be included in squeeze because it adds new hardware support. Since squeeze is intended to use 2.6.32, this means backporting the driver changes. The new hardware support required a large amount of refactoring and there is no possibility of cherry-picking. The changes would have to be applied completely, or not at all.
Since it is my day job to support this driver, and it only depends on one external change in 2.6.33 (which I also contributed) I don't believe there would be any difficulty in our supporting this for the lifetime of squeeze. However, I do not believe I should make the decision to include these changes by myself, due to the potential for conflict of interest. Ben. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-rc8-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
