On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 19:52 -0700, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 11:46 -0700, Inaky Perez-Gonzalez wrote: > > The 1.3 version is purged as it is not supported anymore. > > Not supported by newer kernels? Or "if you are using something that > requires the 1.3 firmware, you can just fuck off and die", along the > lines of what we say to users of the 2.4 kernel? Along those lines -- basically 1.3 was an experimental release and if you have that firmware, you won't be able to connect to anything than a very specific test setup in a lab. The code is still there because it is just two perfectly isolated paths (if curious, check what goes with the i2400m_le_v1_3() test) that I forgot to excise out. > We shouldn't drop stuff from linux-firmware.git until there really is > *no* reason to need it any more. We shouldn't force people to keep > linux-firmware in step with their kernel; they should always be able to > use the latest. Yes, I am aware of that. That's why 1.4 is kept there -- 1.3 is an special case because as I said above, it can't be used in the real world of WiMAX, > When I get home from Tokyo I'll be working on a way to specify min/max > kernel versions for each firmware image, along with a 'make install' > target which lets you say "drop anything which is only relevant to > kernels < 2.6.35' or whatever. That looks pretty sensible :)
