On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 15:42 -0700, David Miller wrote: > And the default is to not use the in-kernel copy. > > At least how things were previously, the dists had to at least think > about patching out firmware and actually make a decision here. > > Now they can just turn off their brains with the changes you've been > proposing lately and from a user perspective I am sure the end result > is going to suck. Have you been testing the Fedora kernel builds with the new 'kernel-firmware' subpackage and actually found problems with it? Why did you not report them? Or even if you aren't talking about _real_ bugs, but just problems you are imagining -- can you point them out explicitly? Other people on the distro side with whom it's been discussed have not raised such issues. The intention of the infrastructure I've developed, in particular the ability to satisfy request_firmware() without calling out to userspace, was to solve such issues. We believe they _are_ solved, so if you still see problems then please actually point them out rather than just spreading FUD. -- dwmw2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
