unable to read from Sandisk 8Gb SD

[Sander van Grieken]

On Wednesday 24 September 2008 23:42:13 Rod Whitby wrote:
> Sander van Grieken wrote:
> >> Sander van Grieken wrote:
> >>>>> That may be, but despite that I need a daily package for kernel I can
> >>>>> point people to.
> >>>>> Actually blocking current stable kernel from users by not packaging
> >>>>> it, which seems to
> >>>>> be the case, is completely backwards.
> >>>>
> >>>> That may be the case, and you defintely should be able to point
> >>>> experienced alpha testers to such isolated packages for testing, but
> >>>> you don't want inexperienced Joe Random User permanently setting their
> >>>> opkg feeds to a such a directory, so you don't really want it as part
> >>>> of the official feeds ...
> >>>
> >>> Since it's the _stable_ tree testing should already have been done
> >>> before merging
> >>
> >> I have no doubt that Andy will have tested the kernel changes.
> >>
> >> The question is how does that new kernel interoperate with the rest of
> >> the rootfs.  For instance, (and people will remember this one well), are
> >> the modules packaged correctly into the rootfs.  Has the userspace been
> >> updated to match changing /sys file locations?
> >>
> >> There's more to keeping a distribution consistent than just testing one
> >> item in isolation ...
> >
> > I agree, and that's where sane-srcrevs.conf comes in, because it acts as
> > a gatekeeper for distribution integration testing.
> >
> > But the SD card corruption patch (and most others patches) have no impact
> > on interfaces or integration and could have been pushed out into the
> > world much earlier. They solve important problems users have.
>
> Yes, and sane-srcrevs.inc is the file which needs to be changed by the
> person who makes the guarantee that it has no impact on interfaces or
> integration.  Then it will appear in the testing feeds automatically.

And that person is on holiday?

Sander