Re: Dealing with drivers that need firmware on the filesystem
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 03:21:40AM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote:
>
> > I don't think I have a problem, conceptually, with a kernel package which
> > provides drivers for 10,000 different types of hardware, and needs to load
> > firmware from disk for 300 of them, being in main (without a
> > Depends:/Recommends: relationship on the firmware-providing packages).
>
> That doesn't quite solve the problem of drivers outside the main kernel
> tree. This is the case for a large amount of current wireless hardware,
> irritatingly.
It's also completely nonsensical that single drivers must go in contrib,
but a bundle of drivers may go in main as long as one of those drivers
does not use non-free firmware.
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