Brian Thomas Sniffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>Huh? If a driver requires a firmware blob be copied from a driver CD, > > Please repeat after me: "drivers do not require firmwares, hardware > > devices require firmwares". > > And the driver requires a functioning hardware device. Thus, the > loadable firmware is in the dependency tree of the software Debian > ships.
There are two slight problems with your argument here: (1) You wrote "a functioning hardware device", i.e. not necessarily the particular device that requires the particular firmware. (2) If a driver requires "a functioning hardware device", then presumably Debian can't ship the driver in main because Debian doesn't include any hardware devices in any part of its distribution!
