From: Christer Weinigel <christer@weinigel.se>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: 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
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:52:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49B94BCA.6090309@weinigel.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090312.104345.68580544.davem@davemloft.net>
David Miller wrote:
> Just about every single distribution has to build a initrd
> that has to be able to setup a network, and have the necessary
> infrastructure to access things over NFS in order to implement
> their installer.
>
> 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.
/Christer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-12 17:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-11 2:29 [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver Ilya Yanok
2009-03-11 4:00 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-03-11 23:33 ` [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver (updated) Ilya Yanok
2009-03-12 6:29 ` David Miller
2009-03-11 4:18 ` [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver Stephen Hemminger
2009-03-11 8:44 ` Sascha Hauer
2009-03-11 8:49 ` David Miller
2009-03-11 8:57 ` Sascha Hauer
2009-03-11 9:09 ` Wolfgang Denk
2009-03-11 10:35 ` Sascha Hauer
2009-03-11 13:23 ` David Miller
2009-03-11 14:00 ` Dan Williams
2009-03-11 18:23 ` Robert Schwebel
2009-03-11 19:15 ` Riku Voipio
2009-03-12 0:44 ` David Miller
2009-03-11 20:56 ` Christer Weinigel
2009-03-11 21:33 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-03-12 0:13 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-03-12 10:41 ` Christer Weinigel
2009-03-12 12:55 ` David Miller
2009-03-12 14:21 ` Christer Weinigel
2009-03-12 14:34 ` Sascha Hauer
2009-03-12 15:01 ` David Miller
2009-03-12 15:12 ` Neil Horman
2009-03-12 16:25 ` Christer Weinigel
2009-03-12 17:43 ` David Miller
2009-03-12 17:52 ` Christer Weinigel [this message]
2009-03-12 18:06 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-03-12 18:39 ` Dan Williams
2009-03-12 18:48 ` Christer Weinigel
2009-03-12 19:04 ` Sascha Hauer
2009-03-12 19:15 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-03-12 19:16 ` Neil Horman
2009-03-12 19:21 ` Christer Weinigel
2009-03-12 20:14 ` Wolfgang Denk
2009-03-12 20:27 ` Sascha Hauer
2009-03-12 20:35 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-03-12 17:49 ` Neil Horman
2009-03-12 18:25 ` Christer Weinigel
2009-03-12 19:05 ` Neil Horman
2009-03-12 19:14 ` Sascha Hauer
2009-03-12 19:29 ` Christer Weinigel
2009-03-12 21:59 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-03-12 23:42 ` Christer Weinigel
2009-03-13 0:21 ` Neil Horman
2009-03-13 1:29 ` Christer Weinigel
2009-03-13 10:30 ` Neil Horman
2009-03-13 0:16 ` Neil Horman
2009-03-12 19:25 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-03-12 19:43 ` Christer Weinigel
2009-03-12 20:24 ` Mike (mwester)
2009-03-13 0:29 ` Neil Horman
2009-03-12 13:41 ` Michael Cashwell
2009-03-12 14:05 ` David Miller
2009-03-12 14:26 ` Neil Horman
2009-03-12 18:02 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-03-13 19:49 ` Robert Schwebel
2009-03-13 20:12 ` David Miller
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