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

Mikael Pettersson
2007-05-09T10:35:46Z

On Wed, 9 May 2007 11:35:03 +0200, Marcus Better wrote:
> Lennert Buytenhek 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.

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