upstream?

incubator · Guru Joined: 05 Jun 2003 Posts: 584 Location: Belgium

I keep reading "upstream 2.6.13" near the patch 4105 for the USR 997902 (r8169 driver) NIC

What does this mean?
and can anyone confirm ifthis drive works before I insert it again and give it another try ?
(right now it lies there, suffering from dust and corrodation because the 2.6.12-r4 gentoo-sources kernel could not manage to getmy NIC to work
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adaptr · Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 5:17 pm Post subject:

It means the patch has been pushed upstream to the kernel developer(s) who are responsible for that driver.
It is not in the mainline kernel (yet), but expected to go in vanilla 2.6.13.
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incubator · Guru Joined: 05 Jun 2003 Posts: 584 Location: Belgium

hmm, in what version of gentoo-sources will it appear then?
in the gentoo-sources-2.6.13 of .14 ?
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