On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 18:03 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Tuesday 02 August 2005 17:35, Allyn, MarkX A wrote: > > We have some patches that have already be open sourced (ICH7) and are > > in the 2.6.11 and above kernels. > > > > What we need to do is to provide a Driver Update Disk so that someone > > who is using the 2.6.8 kernel supplied by the stable release (Sarge) can > > do an install on a ICH7 based system. > > I think the best thing to do is to contact the Debian kernel team at > debian-kernel@lists.debian.org and discuss the options for the stable > kernels with them. > > The Debian package system does not really like packages (your driver > update) replacing files that belong to another package (the official > Debian kernel-image package). This means the best option would be to get > the patches included in an update of the 2.6.8 kernel (which is being > prepared at the moment).
If he produces a new kernel module to add support for this hardware, there's absolutely no reason why it should conflict with linux-kernel. Given that it's not a security fix, would he really have much luck getting a patch into stable's kernel? Rob Taylor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
