Bug#1029848: hw-detect: decide how to configure firmware support
On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 01:20:17AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
>Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> (2023-01-30):
>> 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.
>
>I'd rather not name and define something if we don't need to. What if we
>need or want to distinguish between loading files from the installation
>images and/or from external storage, etc. later on? People might already
>have written their preseed or whatever, and complain we're changing the
>meaning behind that setting.
>
>Things would be much different if we were actually asking a question
>(e.g. in expert mode).
>
>
>(And as you know from our meeting, I totally agree with the “case
>possibility” in the future. But I'd rather wait until we have new,
>reasonable use cases that we want to implement, before deciding on new
>names and semantics.)
That's fair. +1
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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
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