[PATCH 0/1] [Karmic] LP#384403: fix sky2 network controllers

[Tim Gardner]

Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> Following this email is a bug fix for the sky2 network controller, which
> is not correctly detected.  This is a patch from the upstream maintainer,
> which we expect to be accepted into mainline soon.  As the controller
> is rendered unusable and the machine therefore hard to fix afterwards,
> it seems sensible to pull this into the karmic kernel until it hits.
> This represents a regression from Jaunty.
> 
> Proposing to apply this to Karmic. 
> 
> -apw
> 
> Andy Whitcroft (1):
>   UBUNTU: SAUCE: sky2: don't look for VPD size
> 
>  drivers/net/sky2.c |   31 ++++++++++++++++---------------
>  1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> 
> 

I would prefer to _not_ make exceptions to the upstream commit policy 
for development kernels unless the bug does actual damage, such as the 
mmc suspend corruption. There is still plenty of time for the sky2 fix 
to trickle down before Karmic is released.

rtg
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com