severity 402475 important thanks On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 08:57:07PM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > After I browsed the kernel RC bugs, I questionned some debian-kernel > folks on the status of #402475 to see the technical options that were > available. The short summary is that the vanilla driver works for some > persons but the Debian one works for other; the upstream state of the > driver is a bit of a mess because the driver is very young and there > are plenty of branches by various folks for this driver, which doesn't > make it easy to track it.
> There did not seem to be any solution to satisfy everybody, so I was > suggested to propose this bug for an etch-ignore tag. > Of course, this is a regression with previous versions of the kernel > which used to work for some people, but since these were never > released, and since the driver works for other people as a bonus, I > think it's ok to ship such a driver into etch. > Coud a RM please tag the bug etch-ignore if he agrees with the > rationale? Rather, I think that this bug should be downgraded based on the bug log; your follow-up explains why this is not just a matter of Debian breaking a perfectly working driver in a way that causes system hangs. maks, is the fix mentioned in trunk going to be included in etch? Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/
