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Bug#950578: linux-image-4.19.67-2-arm64: Add ACPI network interface support for RPi4

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On 2020.05.09 22:20, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Thu, 2020-05-07 at 14:23 +0100, Pete Batard wrote:
> [...]
>> I specifically designed the patch I submitted for easy review and
>> integration, because there are missing elements from 4.x that are
>> present in 5.x, that we have to compensate for. I would rather not have
>> to split it, especially as I believe it should be included as a matter
>> of priority and we're simply adding delays.
> 
> I personally find it much easier to review backports in this form, and
> it is the usual practice in Debian to backport changes in this form
> where possible.

Then you should have asked for that 3 months ago.

Sorry but that mistakes of not following up on the patch I submitted in 
a reasonable timeframe, or understanding its context and priority level 
is entirely on you.

I have tried all the means I knew to bring attention to this patch for 
weeks that followed its submission (including posting about it in 
various Debian mailing lists, including arm64 and debian-release), and 
nothing happened, and especially nobody provided any inkling about the 
submission needing to be split, so you genuinely have exhausted all of 
the good will I had on that topic.

Moreover, if you are taking my refusal to split the patch as an excuse 
not to produce your own effort to include it in the next release, then 
you are simply corroborating the idea I have established that Debian 
appears to have no clue about the level of importance it should actually 
allocate to the underlying problem this is attempting to solve, and, 
furthermore, that it may simply be looking for a way out of a situation 
it mishandled.

In other words, I am waiting to see a real concerted effort on your side 
before I decide whether I am willing to contribute any further, and 
insistance on asking me to perform work that, if you understood the 
actual severity of the situation, you should be more than willing to 
perform yourself as a matter of urgency, simply indicates that you still 
haven't understood the nature of the underlying situation. As a direct 
result of that, I have good reasons to estimate that further involvement 
from my side is simply not worth the trouble, because it appears that 
you are still going to be bouncing, delaying or mishandling the ability 
for RPi4 users to install Debian from vanilla Debian ISOs.

Therefore either you understand the importance of the problem, and are 
willing to perform the work required to reorganize the submission 
according to your *preferences*. Or you continue to hint that you don't, 
and instead try to place the blame on someone from whom you have long 
exhausted any willingness to contribute to something they have good 
reasons to believe, from the continued unwillingness to take the 
necessary actions on your side, is most likely going to amount to 
*another* completely wasted effort.

In other words, I will need to see some real good will from Debian in 
the matter of trying to salvage the current RPi4 situation before I 
decide to get involved in trying to contribute again. Thus, in case this 
was not clear, let me be explicit in saying that you are not going to 
see any further contribution from me until you have made some visible 
effort to remedy that.

Regards,

/Pete

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Bug#950578: linux-image-4.19.67-2-arm64: Add ACPI network interface support for RPi4 (patch attached) Pete Batard <pete@akeo.ie> - 2020-02-03 20:10 +0100
  Bug#950578: (no subject) Pete Batard <pete@akeo.ie> - 2020-02-14 17:40 +0100
    Bug#950578: Updated patch Pete Batard <pete@akeo.ie> - 2020-02-25 12:40 +0100
      Bug#950578: (no subject) Pete Batard <pete@akeo.ie> - 2020-03-03 18:40 +0100
  Bug#950578: marked as done (linux-image-4.19.67-2-arm64: Add ACPI  network interface support for RPi4 (patch attached)) "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2020-03-30 10:20 +0200
  Bug#950578: fixed in linux 5.5.13-1 Pete Batard <pete@akeo.ie> - 2020-03-30 10:50 +0200
    Bug#950578: fixed in linux 5.5.13-1 Ben Hutchings <benh@debian.org> - 2020-03-30 15:40 +0200
  Bug#950578: linux-image-5.5.0-1-armmp: enable Raspberry Pi 4 NIC module "bcmgenet" Steven Shiau <steven@nchc.org.tw> - 2020-04-06 10:30 +0200
  Bug#950578: Linux 5.5.0-1-arm64: kernel panic after module bcmgenet was loaded Steven Shiau <steven@nchc.org.tw> - 2020-04-09 05:50 +0200
    Bug#950578: Linux 5.5.0-1-arm64: kernel panic after module bcmgenet was loaded Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2020-04-13 16:40 +0200
  Bug#950578: linux-image-4.19.67-2-arm64: Add ACPI network interface support for RPi4 Pete Batard <pete@akeo.ie> - 2020-05-07 12:20 +0200
    Bug#950578: linux-image-4.19.67-2-arm64: Add ACPI network interface support for RPi4 Ben Hutchings <benh@debian.org> - 2020-05-07 14:50 +0200
      Bug#950578: linux-image-4.19.67-2-arm64: Add ACPI network interface support for RPi4 Pete Batard <pete@akeo.ie> - 2020-05-07 15:30 +0200
        Bug#950578: linux-image-4.19.67-2-arm64: Add ACPI network interface support for RPi4 Ben Hutchings <benh@debian.org> - 2020-05-09 23:30 +0200
          Bug#950578: linux-image-4.19.67-2-arm64: Add ACPI network interface support for RPi4 Pete Batard <pete@akeo.ie> - 2020-05-10 00:40 +0200
          Difficulties with kernel package contributions Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2020-05-17 18:00 +0200

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