From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Williams Subject: Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:39:01 -0400 Message-ID: <1236883141.10656.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <49B91A7B.7050303@weinigel.se> <20090312151211.GB24995@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> <49B93777.7030202@weinigel.se> <20090312.104345.68580544.davem@davemloft.net> <49B94BCA.6090309@weinigel.se> <20090312180638.GG14491@shareable.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Christer Weinigel , David Miller , nhorman@tuxdriver.com, shemminger@vyatta.com, s.hauer@pengutronix.de, yanok@emcraft.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk, netdev@vger.kernel.org, wd@denx.de, dzu@denx.de To: Jamie Lokier Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:52089 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751927AbZCLSln (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:41:43 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090312180638.GG14491@shareable.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 18:06 +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Christer Weinigel wrote: > > David Miller wrote: > > > You can start with the debian installer, that's probably the > > > easiest to hack on and extend. > > > > > > Or you can just continue to list excuses, that might be easier. > > > > Or I can keep patching the drivers, that's even easier. No it's not > > something I expect to see in the official kernel, but who cares, I > > always have loads of debug patches that won't get into the official > > kernel either. Keep the status quo. > > Yes. Patching your own initrd or your own modified Debian initrd is > _also_ not in the official trees, so I can't see any reason why > anybody would follow Dave's suggestion. Much more work, different > private tree, same behaviour, probably more bloated, probably Debian's > initrd doesn't work on nommu anyway. > > However there was some attempt to get a reference initrd build into > the kernel. Did that go anywhere? It would actually be good to use > that if it exists. dracut : http://lwn.net/Articles/317793/ Dan