Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.2 - Ethernet and HSS

[Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>]

On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 12:35:40PM +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote:

> > > Does that mean that the Debian ARM people have their heads so far
> > > up their collective asses that they think that every form of change
> > > is bad and are unable to accept that some forms of change might be
> > > for the better?
> > 
> > Well, I am not one of the Debian ARM people, just a user... and I
> > do hope the EABI port becomes supported in the future! But in the
> > meatime there is a crowd of users running Debian on consumer devices
> > like the NSLU2, and they need a LE network driver.
> 
> 1) Development _should_ happen in small individually-manageable steps.
>    It's wrong to delay integration of the new IXP4xx eth driver just
>    because it's not yet LE-compatible.

Exactly.


> 2) LE Debian/ARM users do have alternatives: they can use USB-Ethernet
>    adapters, for instance.

Or just use Christian's driver.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/