Peter Stuge <pe...@stuge.se> writes: > Kernel -sources USE is a handy way to install linux-firmware > wholesale, but AIUI the standalone firmware packages would > be removed too, effectively making the USE flag non-optional, and > removing the possibility of having managed firmware packages. > (People would have to download single firmware files on their own.)
What would perhaps be nice would be to patch 'make firmware_install' to have it call a utility which scans .config and fetches and installs any firmware required for a configured device.
