Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 12:57:57PM -0400, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: >> Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > The vendor then produces a second revision of the hardware. It uses the >> > same driver, but this time the firmware is on an eeprom. By your >> > argument, we are then free to move the driver to main. > >> I disbelieve. It's not the same driver. This one doesn't have the >> loadable firmware support, and does support operation without first >> loading firmware. > > Sure it does. Rather than write a completely new driver the vendor > modified the existing driver to do appropriate things for both revisions > of the hardware. They may even have arranged things so that their newer > hardware has the same firmware download interface, just with a default > image provided on board.
Again, that looks like it would weaken the Depends to Suggests, and allow moving the driver from contrib to main. I don't think you can describe this difference between loadable and built-in firmware in a way which doesn't match the contrib/main distinction, and I think perhaps that means something. -Brian -- Brian Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
