[oe] [PATCH] linux-firmware: split into bus specific packages.
Tom Rini
tom_rini at mentor.com
Mon Feb 14 17:33:50 UTC 2011
On 02/14/2011 10:22 AM, Filip Zyzniewski wrote:
> On 2/14/11, Otavio Salvador<otavio at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
>
>> Right but usually we'll have drivers/modules for one, two or three
>> vendors that are used or demanded to be supported and then those
>> firmware needs to be supported as well.
>
> Can you give an example?
> If you are building a distro for a device with USB host - on what
> basis do you choose whose products to support?
Honestly, I think we need bus and vendor in the split. I do want the
firmware for my ralink USB WiFi dongle but not all of the other vendors
and I'd un-install what I could un-install.
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Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation
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