2007/8/25, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 19:44 +0200, Dino Leonardo Sangoi wrote:
> > Maybe a nicer way to handle these changes would be delivering the
> > needed package to the repositories, sending a heads-up to Fedora
> > testers list, and then changing the kernel.
>
> Yeah, John and I did discuss it briefly, and I think he was going to
> create a new b43-fwcutter package and submit it for review.
>
> Rawhide is... well, rawhide. You get to keep both pieces when it breaks.
> But I agree that before we switch F-7 to the new driver (which we'd like
> to do, because it's better), we should have a slightly more coherent
> strategy in place.
Well the (b43) driver already hit Fedora7 repository because we can have
modinfo b43 (with an alias bcm43xx-mac80211) using the last kernel...
This module was blacklisted but somehow, the blacklist "fails".
A user reported that his "ndis" driver showed him a b43
alternative...(and b43.ko was loaded preventing the "ndis" one to
work)
This already happened that the blacklist fails. I don't remember if
there is a tips for it...
It is possible to have the new extractor to be bundled within the old
one ? (then the it will Provides: b43-fwcutter. And users get both
versions of the firmware extracted by the same command ?
That's just an idea...
> If we could find a way to 'convert' the old-style extracted firmware to
> the new format, that would make it a lot easier -- it could be a %post
> script in b43-fwcutter then, and the new kernel could require
> b43-fwcutter (or conflict with bcm43xx-fwcutter, perhaps).
I think they can be parallel installable, i wonder if b43-fwcutter can
have Provides: bcm43xx-fwcutter = (something > 006-3%{?dist}) without
obsoleting bcm43xx-fxcutter so it will bring b43-fwcutter at "download
time" before the users reboot on a new kernel that can potentially
breaks his network (If using wireless to get yum updates)
Nicolas (kwizart)
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