Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.2 - Ethernet and HSS

On Wed, 9 May 2007 11:35:03 +0200, Marcus Better wrote:

Lennert Buytenhek wrote:

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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

On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 12:35:40PM +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote:

quoted

quoted

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.

Exactly.

2) LE Debian/ARM users do have alternatives: they can use USB-Ethernet
   adapters, for instance.

Or just use Christian's driver.