Jon Masters wrote:
On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 15:53 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 10:51 -0400, Jon Masters wrote:
>> K. I guess I'm just raising it so we're aware of it. It's not
exactly
>> a loss, but my fear is that once we make it possible for someone else
>> to replace all the kernel firmware just to update their buggy one,
>> then they'll rush out and do this as soon as possible :)
> Better option might be another directory which appears first on udev's
> (and mkinitrd's) search patch. That way you can override firmware
> without having to split the package.
And that of course is a nicer fix, yeah, then people can have their own
per-device firmware package if they choose to do so. Coolness.
Yeah, something like /lib/firmware/updates/ sounds gravy. I was initially
thinking we could have a kernel-firmware package that was a meta-package,
pulling in umpteen individual firmware packages (a la xorg-x11-drivers), but I
like this idea better.
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Jarod Wilson
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