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Bug#779546: Further information



On Fri, 2015-04-17 at 19:29 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> (2015-03-04):
> > Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> (2015-03-03):
> > > Yes, that's right.  The problem is that we now detect missing firmware
> > > by scraping the kernel log, and we still pick up old ones after
> > > installing firmware and poking the driver.
> > > 
> > > I think we could solve this by noting the timestamp at the bottom of the
> > > kernel log every time we scan it, then only checking lines after that on
> > > the next scan.
> > 
> > I think that's an idea I mentioned in a previous bug report, yes. I'll
> > try and see if I can implement & verify this before RC2.
> 
> I've now implemented that in the following commit:
>   http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/hw-detect.git/commit/?id=1fda53e722375a3ea580f465f7e716d9a3b5da36
[...]

For what it's worth, I've read this and it looks functional.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
If you seem to know what you are doing, you'll be given more to do.

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