On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 15:28 -0700, reinette chatre wrote: > I do not believe our request is unreasonable. If a user runs a new > kernel the log will print a message that the firmware is incorrect ... > all the user needs to do is go to > http://intellinuxwireless.org/?n=Downloads and download the latest > firmware. And that exactly _is_ a problem, the user may be relying on wireless connectivity. And they won't know up-front they need new firmware. Since firmware is loaded from userspace, you're breaking userspace/kernel ABI, it's pretty simple really. I really don't know why we let you get away with this and bitch endlessly when b43 does such a change, to the point where we finally cave in and support both versions. Why should a community-supported driver be held to higher standards? johannes
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