On mer., 2010-01-20 at 14:16 +0800, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote: > >>>>> "H" == Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> writes: > > H> The version the driver thinks you should use is the latest that was > H> available when I wasted a few hours tracking them all. > > Yes, but in addition to giving the message > "Your version 1234 is out of date". > > You need to say "we believe the current version is 1236". That's not the point. He *doesnt* care about the version you need to run. He wants you to run the *latest*. Now he can't check for that, so he just updates the version when he has time. > > And you need to say "this is based on information from > http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/BIOS_Upgrade ". > > Or else each user > 1. Will spend even more hours than the ones you mentioned, trying to > track > down what you are warning him about. He will end up all over the > www-30xx.ibm.com site in a mess. That's no exactly Henrique's fault. And, while the website is not exactly the easiest I know, I definitely have no problem to find a new BIOS. > 2. He will be unable to write down on paper "don't worry about 1236. > It's > only some BIOS password enhancements, and since I don't use password > on > the BIOS, I can ignore that (and not risk flashing into a > paperweight.) -- as he can't tell if you are warning him about 1236 or > 1237 or what. The only other option would be downloading the whole > Debian Linux > source just to find the one line you are checking against. Do you _really_ think every change in the bios/ec appear in the changelog? I don't. I think there are quite some changes in every published BIOS, and that you definitely should run them. > 3. Perhaps consider allowing the user to put the BIOS etc. numbers he > is > happy with in some file that could be checked, so he could say "don't > warn me about anything up thru 1238 (even though he really has only > 1236 > installed.) Except Henrique doesn't care about what the user /think/ is fine, because in the end, it's /not/ fine. The only valid version is the latest. I found Henrique clear enough on that on the first mail, but maybe you didn't. Was I myself clear enough? Cheers, -- Yves-Alexis
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