On Tue, Oct 14 2008, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Problem is that even though this may avoid package conflicts, it is *not*
>> correct given the way Debian currently looks for firmware. Also, it is
>> not the way upstream recommends
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> Please hit me with the cluebat; apparently I'm not understanding anything. Why
> would I want to have more than one firmware installed? AIUI, the firmware is
The firmware has an ABI to the kernel driver. If it changes, both have to
change. This has ha
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> Please hit me with the cluebat; apparently I'm not understanding
> anything. Why would I want to have more than one firmware installed?
> AIUI, the firmware is meant to be installed into the hardware and as
> such shouldn't be tied to the kernel version.
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Seems like upstream udev firmware loader does look at
> > /lib/firmware/$(uname -r)/, which seems sane.
> >
> >Why was this removed?
>
> It wasn't removed, upstr
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> This means that if you start installing the same firmware file under
>> versioned directories, udev will use the first one it finds. Which
>> will be the one for some $random kernel version and not the one for
>> the currently running kernel.
>
> This is not a sound arg
Hello Manoj and other Kernel-Maintainers,
Thank you for doing this hard job...
I am ongoing to test the new "kernel-package".
Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
Michelle Konzack
Systemadministrator
24V Electronic Engineer
Tamay Dogan Network
Debian GNU/Linux Consultant
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Paul Wise wrote:
> In contrast, the latest upstream udev (130) has this:
> FIRMWARE_DIRS="/lib/firmware/$(uname -r) /lib/firmware"
From what I've seen on lkml I suspect this has mainly been added because
some distributions _do_ install firmware is versioned subdirs.
Debian currently does not sup
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Seems like upstream udev firmware loader does look at
> /lib/firmware/$(uname -r)/, which seems sane.
>
>Why was this removed?
It wasn't removed, upstream added that after the version of udev in Debian.
On Mon, Oct 13 2008, Frans Pop wrote:
> Manoj wrote:
>> It correctly installs firmware in a versioned location under
>> /lib/firmware.
>
> Problem is that even though this may avoid package conflicts, it is
> *not* correct given the way Debian currently looks for firmware. Also,
> it is not the wa
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Problem is that even though this may avoid package conflicts, it is *not*
> correct given the way Debian currently looks for firmware. Also, it is
> not the way upstream recommends to install firmware.
>
> All (non-free) Debi
Manoj wrote:
> It correctly installs firmware in a versioned location under
> /lib/firmware.
Problem is that even though this may avoid package conflicts, it is *not*
correct given the way Debian currently looks for firmware. Also, it is
not the way upstream recommends to install firmware.
All
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008, Manoj Srivastava engaged keyboard and shared this with us
all:
>--} Hi folks,
>--}
>--} A new version of kernel-package has made its way to unstable.
>--} This is a extensive change, and addresses most of the problems that
>--} have been plaguing kernel-package, part
Hi,
Be sure to get kernel-package_11.005_all.deb. The 11.005 fixes a
critical regression, born of a copy&paste error from late night
hacking. Sorry for the inconvenience.
manoj
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