Bug#612349: [PATCH] upgrading: warn about missing firmware

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 21:59:43 +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 05:29:32PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > When upgrading the kernel it may be necessary to install some firmware.
> > Warn about this in the kernel upgrade section.
> 
> Looks good. I would change however:
> 
> "means that it may be necessary to install additional firmware packages after
> installing the new kernel. (...)" 
> 
> to
> 
> "means that it may be necessary to install additional firmware packages after
> installing the new kernel to support some hardware. Some hardware that
> was operating correctly before the upgrade might fail to work once
> the kernel is upgraded. (...)
> 
I think it's too late to change before 6.0.1.  Can you remind me again
next week?

Thanks,
Julien