On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 03:07:44PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> > On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 06:01:09PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>
> >> Since Linux 2.6.32 the following updates have been made to storage and
> >> network drivers that might be used during installation. The list is
> >> based on the Kernel Newbies list and may be incomplete. I have
> >> excluded CAN and WAN drivers as unlikely to be useful, and SR-IOV VF
> >> drivers as not necessary (they are a useful optimisation but we
> >> already have PV networking drivers). There are still some platform
> >> drivers in the list that can probably be ignored as not useful in any
> >> current kernel flavour.
> >>
> >> I don't think we can cover all of these, even after excluding the
> >> unused platform drivers. So we'll need to prioritise.
> >
> > Ben, do you plan further driver backports to oldstable or shall we close
> > the bug?
>
> Unless some of these backports are known to fix data loss or
> something, I think it makes sense to close.
Right, I don't ever expect to add any new hardware support to
oldstable.
Ben.
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