Firmware

[Jon Masters]

On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 15:53 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 10:51 -0400, Jon Masters wrote:
> > K. I guess I'm just raising it so we're aware of it. It's not exactly
> > a loss, but my fear is that once we make it possible for someone else
> > to replace all the kernel firmware just to update their buggy one,
> > then they'll rush out and do this as soon as possible :)
> 
> Better option might be another directory which appears first on udev's
> (and mkinitrd's) search patch. That way you can override firmware
> without having to split the package.

And that of course is a nicer fix, yeah, then people can have their own
per-device firmware package if they choose to do so. Coolness.

Jon.