Bug#1029848: hw-detect: decide how to configure firmware support
On Sun, Jan 29, 2023 at 03:38:14AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
>Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> (2023-01-29):
>> >I'm proposing:
>> > - “hw-detect/firmware” as template for hw-detect;
>>
>> I was thinking "hw-detect/load_firmware" might be better - we may
>> want/need more firmware questions yet, so let's leave the namespace
>> open?
>
>That's exactly what someone has already thought about, and used to
>implement the “Load missing firmware from removable media?” prompt.
Bah :-/
>If we really want not to use a bare /firmware, maybe /firmware-lookup?
>But having something specialized in hw-detect and something much more
>generic in preseed would look strange to me. I don't really mind either
>way.
tbh, I'm happy enough either way too!
>> > - “firmware” or “fw” as an alias for shorter typing (“fw” feels like
>> > extremely short);
>>
>> I'd just go for "firmware" here; "fw" might be confused with firewall
>> (I see Andy had a similar thought).
>
>Agreed, let's go with “firmware”.
>
>> > - “never” value to skip firmware handling altogether, meaning
>> > skipping both mechanisms mentioned above.
>>
>> Maybe, yeah. That's probably clearest. Then we'd default to "always".
>
>That's the *spirit* of it but not the letter:
> - I'm implementing support for “never”.
> - I'm not implementing support “always”. It doesn't exist. It isn't
> specified. This isn't the value you're looking for! :)
Fine. I'd be *tempted* to maybe define the default to "always", to be
100% clear and (maybe?) more consistent to my OCD. At some point I
expect we're likely to end up with a case statement in hw-detect,
after all.
>More seriously, the template doesn't even come with a default value. I'm
>using db_get and "$RET" = never to implement early exit, that's all.
>
>> >That would leave us a rather important flexibility regarding other
>> >behaviours that we might want to implement, depending on the use
>> >cases that might get identified (#1029543), without having to make a
>> >decision about those (names and associated semantic) right now.
>>
>> Yup, good call. We can extend this more to add the nuanced options
>> once we've got the basics - let's do it incrementally!
>
>Thanks for confirming the approach!
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