On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 12:34 AM, Michael Biebl <em...@michaelbiebl.de> wrote: > Am 13.12.2013 00:26, schrieb Michael Biebl: >> Am 13.12.2013 00:12, schrieb Andreas Cadhalpun: >>> The Debian installer needs a way to load the firmware during >>> installation, otherwise the netinst.iso is pretty useless for WLAN >>> devices with non-free firmware. >>> Since a majority of the WLAN devices need non-free firmware, just >>> dropping this functionality without replacement is a serious regression. >>> Therefore I ask you to re-enable it until a replacement is written. >> >> Could something like isenkram [1] be integrated into d-i and install >> necessary (firmware) packages based on the modalias information? >> >> Especially [2] looks like it could be a replacement. >> That said, isenkram-autoinstall-firmware doesn't seem to use the >> modalias info and instead greps through the modinfo output which looks >> like a rather hackish approach on a cursory glance. > > According to codesearch.d.n, hw-detect is the only tool using > /run/udev/firmware-missing. I'm inclined to re-assign this bug to > hw-detect and let the hw-detect maintainers decided how to handle this. > If something like the isenkram approach would be suitable for them
PackageKit used it too. General note: the entire idea of blindly recording firmware requests is flawed. It makes not much sense to make assumptions about drivers and that the files they ask for are *missing*, they are not in many cases. Many drivers just request things to check for updates which in many cases never exist. Or they request multiple files in a row, to fall back to older versions they find. The only sensible way to produce information about *missing* firmware would be to add explicit messages to the kernel when things are really *missing*. Blindly tracing firmware requests and guessing around never really made sense. Also: That all this is gone now is a side-effect of moving firmware loading into the kernel where it belongs. There is nothing userspace can do about, the information is just no longer available to userspace. Kay -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
