On Wed, 9 May 2007 11:35:03 +0200, Marcus Better wrote: > Lennert Buytenhek 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. 2) LE Debian/ARM users do have alternatives: they can use USB-Ethernet adapters, for instance. /Mikael - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
