weirdness in debian/prune-non-free

["Thibaut VARENE" <varenet@debian.org>]

While taking a look at
source/2.6.7-3/kernel-source-2.6.7-2.6.7/debian/prune-non-free

I noticed the following lines at the very end of the file:

# prune the firmware from the Tigon3 driver, leaving the rest in place
awk '/^(static
)?u32.*tg3(Tso)?5?Fw(Data|Rodata|Text)/,/^};$/{evil=1}!evil{print}{evil=0}'
drivers/net/tg3.c > drivers/net/tg3.c.pruned
mv drivers/net/tg3.c.pruned drivers/net/tg3.c
rm -f drivers/net/tg3.c

Now I wonder: what's the point of purging firmware from the tg3.c file
if we end up deleting it afterwards?

HTH



Thibaut VARENE
The PA/Linux ESIEE Team
http://www.pateam.org/