Mathieu Simon wrote: > I'd like to help getting the patches in right shape - if possible. [...] > Does Debian prefer "1 patch per upstream" commit or have one big patch > per driver/file?
I believe the kernel team is happiest if there's a public git tree based against 3.2, gregkh's 3.2.y, or some similar release like gregkh's 3.0.y to pull patches from. (Compare aufs.) [...] > ata_pIIx doesn't defer to the (much faster) paravirt storage driver when > Debian is run on Hyper-V, > or worse, we can lose the root file system when drivers switch between > storvsc and ata_piix. > > As we can't use modprobe rules (as done on RHEL for this), Andy > Whitcroft has come up > with a patch for Ubuntu's 3.2-based kernel that solves the problem and > does the job on > Wheezys' kernel too.* [...] > * > http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/ubuntu-precise.git;a=commitdiff;h=a896e46ae52619bf4f34cdb342c2862071f5c25c;hp=720dab378e884a99b6d8aed51f7eb1615d10549e > (MS' Mike Sterling agreed in community forums that this patch isn't > likely to go upstream as such...) Has the topic been raised on the linux-ide@ list? Thanks, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120331130157.GA13735@burratino
