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 argument. > > And if I have multiple kernels installed, and only one firmware, > theb the firmware on the machine will be the random firmware most > recently installed. By just reverting back to upstream behaviour, this > randomness in the face of versioned dirs disappears.
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. In fact, I would expect the firmware to be the same across several kernel versions. A new firmware should not break the hardware-kernel interface in a backwards-incompatible manner. And I guess the kernel should ignore hardware features the firmware doesn't support. The worst case scenario I see is that when you have different kernel and firmware versions, there could be things your hardware can do, the kernel supports it, but the firmware doesn't or the other way around. In that case, I only care about having the latest firmware around. -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
