Re: Some thoughts about firmware inclusion.

["Nicolas Mailhot" <nicolas mailhot laposte net>]

Le Mar 23 octobre 2007 01:15, Bastien Nocera a écrit :

> 99% of the time, the driver and firmware[1] are closely knit. Try
> upgrade the firmware of a QLogic card without the driver following,
> and watch bad things happen.

have the driver request-firmware a different firmware id each time it
breaks compat with old firmware, and package every firmware version a
kernel in a given release may need in a single firmware package

Problem solved.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot