On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 05:46:07PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > This is clearly not appropriate; it is not "perfectly reasonable" to > install a driver package without the firmware, any more than it is > reasonable to install a dynamically-linked binary without its shared > library dependencies. In both cases, the functionality is limited to > simply imforming the user that a necessary component was not installed.
Except in the case of a driver that also works on devices that have the firmware embedded in a ROM chip. Mike
