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From: Christer Weinigel <christer@weinigel.se>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: nhorman@tuxdriver.com, shemminger@vyatta.com,
	s.hauer@pengutronix.de, yanok@emcraft.com,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	wd@denx.de, dzu@denx.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:52:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49B94BCA.6090309@weinigel.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090312.104345.68580544.davem@davemloft.net>

David Miller wrote:
> Just about every single distribution has to build a initrd
> that has to be able to setup a network, and have the necessary
> infrastructure to access things over NFS in order to implement
> their installer.
> 
> You can start with the debian installer, that's probably the
> easiest to hack on and extend.
> 
> Or you can just continue to list excuses, that might be easier.

Or I can keep patching the drivers, that's even easier.  No it's not 
something I expect to see in the official kernel, but who cares, I 
always have loads of debug patches that won't get into the official 
kernel either.  Keep the status quo.

   /Christer

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-12 17:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-11  2:29 [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver Ilya Yanok
2009-03-11  4:00 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-03-11 23:33   ` [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver (updated) Ilya Yanok
2009-03-12  6:29     ` David Miller
2009-03-11  4:18 ` [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver Stephen Hemminger
2009-03-11  8:44   ` Sascha Hauer
2009-03-11  8:49     ` David Miller
2009-03-11  8:57       ` Sascha Hauer
2009-03-11  9:09         ` Wolfgang Denk
2009-03-11 10:35           ` Sascha Hauer
2009-03-11 13:23           ` David Miller
2009-03-11 14:00             ` Dan Williams
2009-03-11 18:23             ` Robert Schwebel
2009-03-11 19:15             ` Riku Voipio
2009-03-12  0:44               ` David Miller
2009-03-11 20:56       ` Christer Weinigel
2009-03-11 21:33         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-03-12  0:13         ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-03-12 10:41           ` Christer Weinigel
2009-03-12 12:55             ` David Miller
2009-03-12 14:21               ` Christer Weinigel
2009-03-12 14:34                 ` Sascha Hauer
2009-03-12 15:01                 ` David Miller
2009-03-12 15:12                 ` Neil Horman
2009-03-12 16:25                   ` Christer Weinigel
2009-03-12 17:43                     ` David Miller
2009-03-12 17:52                       ` Christer Weinigel [this message]
2009-03-12 18:06                         ` Jamie Lokier
2009-03-12 18:39                           ` Dan Williams
2009-03-12 18:48                           ` Christer Weinigel
2009-03-12 19:04                             ` Sascha Hauer
2009-03-12 19:15                               ` Jamie Lokier
2009-03-12 19:16                               ` Neil Horman
2009-03-12 19:21                               ` Christer Weinigel
2009-03-12 20:14                               ` Wolfgang Denk
2009-03-12 20:27                                 ` Sascha Hauer
2009-03-12 20:35                                 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-03-12 17:49                     ` Neil Horman
2009-03-12 18:25                       ` Christer Weinigel
2009-03-12 19:05                         ` Neil Horman
2009-03-12 19:14                           ` Sascha Hauer
2009-03-12 19:29                           ` Christer Weinigel
2009-03-12 21:59                           ` Jamie Lokier
2009-03-12 23:42                             ` Christer Weinigel
2009-03-13  0:21                               ` Neil Horman
2009-03-13  1:29                                 ` Christer Weinigel
2009-03-13 10:30                                   ` Neil Horman
2009-03-13  0:16                             ` Neil Horman
2009-03-12 19:25                         ` Jamie Lokier
2009-03-12 19:43                           ` Christer Weinigel
2009-03-12 20:24                   ` Mike (mwester)
2009-03-13  0:29                     ` Neil Horman
2009-03-12 13:41   ` Michael Cashwell
2009-03-12 14:05     ` David Miller
2009-03-12 14:26       ` Neil Horman
2009-03-12 18:02       ` Jamie Lokier
2009-03-13 19:49       ` Robert Schwebel
2009-03-13 20:12         ` David Miller

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