On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 17:13 -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > OK, so lets go back to basics here. > > The point of a bug report is to report a bug. The Bug here is that > large numbers of systems will break on upgrade to this kernel once it > hits stable. This is the problem that needs fixing. OK. [...] > A pre upgrade script that detected the problem based on the runtime > detection that the user needed modules with firmware now in > firmware-linux would be acceptable. Just stop, print the warning and > allow them to OK or cancel. The list of modules now requiring firmware > surely isn't non-free and it can be derived from the linux build system > fairly easily. This is certainly possible, though it will result in false positives since some modules (including e100) only need firmware for some of the supported hardware. We could certainly use the list of modules as a starting point and then later try to implement more specific checks (e.g. by device id) to reduce those false positives. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid all together.
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