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Message-Id: <1221229964.3919.38.camel@macbook.infradead.org>
Date:	Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:32:44 -0700
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Joseph Fannin <jfannin@...il.com>
Cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>,
	Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud@...driva.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, 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

On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 04:39 -0400, Joseph Fannin wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 03:25:43PM -0700, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 15:07 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> <snip>
> 
> > Now, can we _please_ stop being bloody stupid? If there are _real_
> > problems, like the one I fixed with commit 1cede1af last week, then I'm
> > perfectly happy to deal with them. But stop making crap up.
> 
> I CAN'T INSTALL MORE THAN ONE KERNEL PACKAGE > v2.6.26.
> 
> IT'S NOT IMAGINARY.
> 
> IT USED TO WORK AND YOU BROKE IT.

Then your kernel packaging is broken. Fix it.

Or go an stand in the corner with the muppets who are whining that the
move from arch/i386 to arch/x86 also broke their kernel packaging....
and who refuse to fix that too.

Oh, wait...there weren't any of those; it wasn't even a _consideration_.

You're just being an idiot, because people like to whine about firmware.

-- 
David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@...el.com                              Intel Corporation

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