b43-fwcutter: add helper script for getting firmware

Rafał Miłecki zajec5 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 1 15:29:34 PDT 2014


On 1 August 2014 23:35, Michael Büsch <m at bues.ch> wrote:
>> What about handling it in a kernel? If we ever start supporting new,
>> backward incompatible, version of firmware, maybe we should use
>> something like a /lib/firmware/b43-v123/?
>
> Yes, we should _have_ done this. But we didn't.
> We could simply ignore old incompatible kernels (...)

I think we broke that compatibility in 3.2, which is one before the
oldest supported longterm. I don't see a point in fixing that old
breakage now, when only 2.6.32 keeps affected. But I'll be more
careful in the future!

Thanks for discussion!



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