(Not so) surprising loss of e100 module.

["David L. Anselmi" <anselmi@anselmi.us>]

I'm wondering whether there's a bug I can file to make it easier for 
users of kernel 2.6.29 and later to know they might want firmware-linux 
installed also.

I just upgraded from 2.6.26 to 2.6.30 and update-initramfs complained 
that it couldn't find the e100 firmware.  I didn't have it so naturally 
the new kernel couldn't use the e100 driver.  Not too surprising, there 
has to be some reason to call it "unstable". ;-)

At first glance I didn't find firmware-linux since it doesn't say e100 
in the description (the firmware name is in there though so I'd have 
found it by looking harder).

So I wonder, by the time 2.6.30+ goes to stable, how will a 
non-technical user know they want firmware-linux?  Should the 
linux-image packages recommend it (they can't depend on non-free, right)?

Is this something that's already solved?  Is it something that needs to 
be solved?

Thanks!
Dave