From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
albcamus@gmail.com, chris@arachsys.com, mchan@broadcom.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bnx2: update bnx2-mips-09 firmware to bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2012 08:27:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1344407272.28967.214.camel@edumazet-glaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120808061758.GA15255@1wt.eu>
On Wed, 2012-08-08 at 08:17 +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
>
> Well, if the drivers provided with the kernel don't work out of the box
> anymore, maybe we should also move them to a separate repository. All it
> is going to do otherwise is to cause invalid bug reports because users
> don't understand why using the latest driver does not work.
>
> That way it would be clear that an in-kernel driver has to be self-sustaining
> to be maintainable, otherwise it has nothing to do there.
People compiling their own kernels are supposed to be able to handle
this problem themselves.
If not, they can use a distro.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-08 6:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-13 13:04 Chris Webb
2012-07-13 13:42 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-07-13 14:09 ` Chris Webb
2012-07-13 21:12 ` Michael Chan
2012-07-14 4:27 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-08-08 5:50 ` Jike Song
2012-08-08 5:58 ` David Miller
2012-08-08 6:17 ` Willy Tarreau
2012-08-08 6:27 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2012-08-08 6:49 ` Willy Tarreau
2012-08-08 7:00 ` Eric Dumazet
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