On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? Patches that we'll support both firmwares from the cummutiy will be welcome, as always. Tomas -- 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
