Re: Dealing with drivers that need firmware on the filesystem

[Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>]

Craig Sanders wrote:
> this affects even DFSG-free drivers with DFSG-free patches.  you often can't
> apply the patches to the debianised kernel sources because the context that
> the patch needs is missing.
> 
> e.g. try downloading the patch[1] for DVICO Fusion DVB-T card's DFSG-free
> driver and applying it to the kernel source from any kernel-source-x.x.x
> package.  it won't apply to the debian kernel, yet it applies without a
> problem to pristine sources downloaded from kernel.org.
> 
> [1] http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~chrisp/Linux-DVB/DVICO/
> 
> is this driver non-free?  no.
> 
> does this driver contain firmware blobs?  no.

Why has it been removed?

Regards,

	Joey

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