Ack w/cmnt: Precise SRU, [PATCH 0/12] CONFIG_DSA=m, 12 patches

Seth Forshee seth.forshee at canonical.com
Thu May 24 21:31:38 UTC 2012


On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 03:05:14PM -0600, Tim Gardner wrote:
> Sometimes I hate git send-email.
> 
> http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1004148
> 
> The DSA transport is experimental. By policy it should not be
> built-in. The dependent hardware modules in drivers/net/dsa will
> load the transport as a result of udev probing. Finally, this is
> pretty esoteric and rare hardware, so is unlikely to cause any
> issues with a normal desktop or server.

Seems like the only real risk of regression outside of the driver itself
would be build problems, but I'm assuming you've already tested for
those. It's definitely better to have experimental code in a module, so
this seems worthwhile.

Acked-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee at canonical.com>




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