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Message-Id: <20080910.162423.40167601.davem@davemloft.net> Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:24:23 -0700 (PDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: dwmw2@...radead.org Cc: jeffm@...e.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: Allow release-specific firmware dir From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org> Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:15:11 -0700 > It's definitely not something we should be doing upstream though. So you think it's ok that every Debian user has to learn this magic incantation just to use current kernels? I don't think it's nice to break things like this on people, especially such a large group. Getting this stuff to work is hard enough, and we're just putting yet another barrier into the situation and that can only mean less testers and contributors. I do know several people who aren't testing and contributing because the whole firmware shakeup is so bolixed and they really are exasperated after spending hours trying to get it to work. This costs people's time, which is valuable. I hate to say it, but this kind of attitude seems to be pervasive every time some negative ramification of the firmware changes shows up. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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