Re: Building vanilla kernel .debs
On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 11:31 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> 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.
ipw2x00 isn't shipped in the kernel source tree, so is completely
irrelevant to this discussion. Please, come back when you have an idea
what you're talking about.
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dwmw2
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