Re: Building vanilla kernel .debs
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 10:17:52AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 10:48 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 07:30:47AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > > That's intentional. There is no need for it -- the firmware should live
> > > in /lib/firmware.
> > >
> > > If there are incompatible versions of firmware, then they'll have a
> > > different filename and can co-exist.
> >
> > This is, however, a challenge for the packaging system. With the
> > current scheme, I cannot have the firmware package for kernel 2.6.x
> > installed while the firmware package for kernel 2.6.y is installed.
>
> Right. The newer firmware package ought to be perfectly sufficient for
> use with the older kernel.
It frequently is not. See ipw2x00.
Greetings
Marc
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