Re: Firmware

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On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 03:53:07PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 10:51 -0400, Jon Masters wrote:
> > K. I guess I'm just raising it so we're aware of it. It's not exactly
> > a loss, but my fear is that once we make it possible for someone else
> > to replace all the kernel firmware just to update their buggy one,
> > then they'll rush out and do this as soon as possible :)
> 
> Better option might be another directory which appears first on udev's
> (and mkinitrd's) search patch. That way you can override firmware
> without having to split the package.

Cute hack that might get ugly later when the tarball is actually updated
with a newer version than the one in the 'special' directory leading to
all sorts of confusion about what version is loading..

But I am for the baby steps approach just to get a sense of how this going
to work properly.

Thanks for the effort.

Cheers,
Don

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