On Sun, 2013-06-16 at 17:13 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> On Sonntag, 16. Juni 2013, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Sun, 2013-06-16 at 09:44 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
> > > reassign 710686 firmware-atheros
> > How wid you decide that?
>
> sorry, I missed the usual disclaimer: "sorry for just reassigning this bug,
> but I guess the atheros firmare maintainers know better how to deal with this
> bug"....
But how do you know this is a firmware bug, not a driver bug? You
don't.
How would we fix a bug in sourceless firmware? We can't.
How do we contact the upstream developers? We have no idea who they
are, really. Our only contact is through the driver developers.
So if you have a bug that might be in firmware or a driver it should
always be assigned first to the driver (i.e. src:linux).
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
Klipstein's 4th Law of Prototyping and Production:
A fail-safe circuit will destroy others.
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