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SubjectRe: [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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