netdev - Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.2

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Date:	Wed, 9 May 2007 13:07:59 +0200
From:	Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@...tstofly.org>
To:	Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se>
Cc:	marcus@...ter.se, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.2 - Ethernet and HSS

On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 12:35:40PM +0200, Mikael Pettersson 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.

Exactly.


> 2) LE Debian/ARM users do have alternatives: they can use USB-Ethernet
>    adapters, for instance.

Or just use Christian's driver.
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