Johannes Meixner <jsmeix at suse.de> writes: > On Apr 24 16:50 Olaf Meeuwissen wrote (shortened): > >> To be precise the upload is done by the plugin, not by the backend. >> I wish I had the time for extract the upload bit into a separate >> utility that can be started from udev ... > > I would appreciate it so have a free firmware upload utility > and the firmware files provided for download separated from > the proprietary plugin.
That would be nice indeed. > By the way: > Compare how HP does the firmware upload for their proprietary > crap models and see how happy I am about such bad hardware: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/187049 > [snip] > The usual warm feeling in the udev plug-and-play hell... Thanks for the warning ;-) >> > I must know which models require firmware upload [snip] >> >> Johannes, when did you ask? > > See the mail which I appended at the bottom. Mea culpa! Please accept my apologies for suggesting you didn't. >> I can add the firmware files to the epkowa.desc file >> if you want > > Yes, please! > It is very much better to have explicite information > as a makeshift in a comment than no such info at all. Pending the suggestion for a new :firmware field to the *.desc file format, I'd much prefer to stick it in a ;firmware comment. Yes, I am aware that it will not show up in the HTML tables this way. >> but it would be nice if there were some extra fields > > Of course. > I asked for "firmware" fields in *.desc some time ago here > on this list, see > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2006-January/015949.html Thanks for the pointer. BTW, that thread didn't seem to go anywhere beyond Henning's comments. >> As to the "official policy" bit, at least this developer here is not >> aware of any such policy and wonders how you found out about it. > > What else could I do when nobody who is responsible at Avasys > talks to me than to deduce from what the actual results are > in the past years? Sorry, I overlooked your quotes on "official" in the original. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen FLOSS Engineer -- AVASYS Corporation FSF Associate Member #1962 sign up at http://member.fsf.org/
