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

Lennert Buytenhek
2007-05-09T11:04:17Z

On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 11:35:03AM +0200, Marcus Better 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.

"There's a crowd of users running Linux on TCP offload capable
cards, and they need TCP offload support in Linux."

The people who need a LE network driver can use Christian's driver,
as Christian's driver works in LE just fine. The people who care
about LE support can add LE support to the driver that Krzysztof wrote.

I don't think that not supporting LE is a reason not to merge
Krzysztof's driver. Don't make supporting LE systems Krzysztof's
problem.

Krzysztof has written an excellent driver, and while it would be 100%
Debian style to reject his driver just because it doesn't support LE[*],
thankfully, Linux is not Debian. Please don't turn Linux into Debian.

[*] And if he were to complain about this, he would get slapped with
the standard "Our priorities are our users and free software"
Debian Social Contract rhetoric -- thank $DEITY we don't have a
Linux Kernel Social Contract with the same bullshit in it.