Am Donnerstag, 29. April 2004 00:39 schrieb John Tyner:
> On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > We are, at least nominally, in a stable kernel series.
> > If you do this a seamless kernel upgrade is no longer possible.
> > Is there a technical reason to do this right now?
>
> Not really. It was mostly because I read the Debian people are getting
> ready to rip out all firmware related stuff from the kernel source. I
Their problem. If I understand Debian's policy correctly they wouldn't ship
the firmware in any form, so Debian users have to do it themselves anyway.
No reason to make upgrades harder for the rest.
> thought that rather than someone having to go out and hack the source
> to get the camera to work, it would be nicer to just convert to this
> method. It's usability and "political correctness" more than anything
> else, I suppose.
And hit anybody else who had installed a vanilla kernel of a stable series.
Regards
Oliver
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