On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 03:28:08PM -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. This does not require any subtle changes that may affect other > aspects of the system ... just the firmware file that is only used by > the driver. with the wireless that doesn't work. Nice. Sorry guys, but requiring a new firmware version for a new driver release is completely unreasonable. You can drop support for older firmware ABIs after a few years, but not immediately. -- 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
