Hi Johannes, > > 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 talked to David Woodhouse and we plan to add a big warning to modules_install when MODULE_FIRMWARE is not present on the filesystem. > 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? If in any way possible, we should support both versions of the firmware. Regards Marcel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
