Hi! I'm a 3945 user and am quite happy with everything. Thx for your good work! But: On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:28:14 +0200 "Tomas Winkler" <tomasw-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The objective of the objections is not that we want to immensely hurt > users but rather the trade off between maintain even uglier code and > users running buggy firmware versus logging into older kernel and > downloading new firmware in 5 minutes looks to me not proportional. > Distro users that pull updates won't even notice. I might be wrong > though. more so like 10 minutes, if you are quick to grasp what happened. if 1000 encounter this problem, that's 10000 minutes wasted, thats 7*24 hours. That's some annoying big waste of time! keep in mind that that breakage _will_ waste the time of other people and that those people are your fellow cutting-edge-kernel testers and developers! but then again, if the new firmware is really superior in many cases, that might be worth it? i mean, if people forget that they are annoyed because the device now performs super ueber cool... or smth like that.. it might pay off (from a user perspective)... so my hope: you avoid breakage and keep people happy! That is also good for your karma (whatever that is) Sincerely, Florian p.s.: if i think more about it: all my non-linux colleagues refer to such breakages as "the linux-expirience"... my linux friends would refer to such stuff as "the gentoo-expirience" ... but in my book stuff like this just sucks...
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