The most recent tg3.c patch posted here (by Herbert Xu on Tue, 11 May
2004) does not apply cleanly to linux-2.6.17. No surprise, a lot has
changed in the last two years. I applied it by hand (it wasn't hard),
and I can verify that the result (freshened patch attached) compiles
without error. I c
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 10:06:44PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
> enough time is lost with any of those dfsg firmware wankers,
> that do _zero_ work upstream or on the licensing front.
I repeat my offer to patch any (well, almost any) of these
drivers to use request_firmware(). I need a volunt
Kyle -
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 02:41:52PM -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> No wonder you're so *** enthusiastic about removing support for
> hardware. You don't own any of it. How *** convenient.
Can I deduce from this that _you_ own some of the affected hardware?
If I patch in request_firmw
Maks -
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 06:05:30PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
> > Something about [bug #242866] seems broken, however,
> > because RC-buggy linux-2.6 packages keep making it into
> > testing. Is it obvious how to keep this from happening,
> > without starting a new bug attached to lin
Maks -
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 12:48:15AM -0700, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 05:17:34PM -0700, Larry Doolittle wrote:
> > Package: linux-2.6
> > Severity: serious
> > Justification: Policy 2.1
>
> how about if you check for duplicate bug reports!
> see #242866 for
Sven -
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 09:01:15PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> Ah, it has been argued, that since the driver depends on the firmware to work,
> it should then go to contrib, but not stay in main, so moving the whole stuff
> to non-free is lightyears easier to handle, and you don't need to d
Sven -
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 08:00:26PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> Thanks for this report, it is nice to see someone actually contributing useful
> information instead of just complaining :)
Quoting from the Beatles: "You say you want a contribution,
well, you know, we're all doing what we can
Kernel team (and lurkers) -
Binary-only firmware in the Linux kernel lives on in Debian's
anxiety closet.
I find 59 instances in linux-2.6_2.6.17.orig.tar.gz. Please
review my analysis posted at
http://doolittle.icarus.com/~larry/fwinventory/2.6.17.html
Unless something changes soon, we're lo
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