On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 10:48 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 07:30:47AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > > That's intentional. There is no need for it -- the firmware should live > > in /lib/firmware. > > > > If there are incompatible versions of firmware, then they'll have a > > different filename and can co-exist. > > This is, however, a challenge for the packaging system. With the > current scheme, I cannot have the firmware package for kernel 2.6.x > installed while the firmware package for kernel 2.6.y is installed.
Right. The newer firmware package ought to be perfectly sufficient for use with the older kernel. > If we had this scheme in the past, having a fallback kernel would have > been hard or impossible during firmware transitions, which for example > the ipw2x00 drivers have gone through multiple times. > > Please rethink this intention. You misunderstand. Shipping firmware packages built from the kernel is just a transitional thing. You should be using the linux-firmware package instead, which includes old _and_ new firmware. -- dwmw2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
