[arch-general] kernel26 2.6.25-1 enters [testing]

Dream Team dreamteam69 at gmail.com
Sun Apr 20 18:19:01 EDT 2008


Le Sunday 20 April 2008 15:23:38 Erwin Van de Velde, vous avez écrit :
> On Saturday 19 April 2008, Thomas Bächler wrote:
> > - Removed mactel patch
> >
> > The removal of these patches was because a) there are no new patches
> > available for 2.6.25 and b) I am trying to reduce the amount of
> > patching, especially if it only benefits a few people or can be
> > potentially dangerous.
>
> As far as I know, the mactel patch is required for some hardware support 
> on intel-based mac systems and contains important fixes. This does not seem
> like one patch too many, but an essential one for all users who, like me,
> have mac hardware.
> I do understand your wish to reduce the number of patches, but throwing out
> patches required for support of important hardware does not seem the way to
> go to me.
>
> Regards,
> Erwin

I also am using arch on my mac, and I find this essential and should not be 
removed if you find 2.6.25 compatible patchs (I am sure that they will come 
out in not so many time)

Arnaud




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